The Kansas City Star describes Margaret Marco's oboe playing as “wistful and utterly engaging,” while the Dubuque Telegraph Herald reports "Marco's deft and lilting expression ...was often reminiscent of a soprano's operatic aria." Dr. Marco is the assistant professor of oboe at the University of Kansas, where she has taught since 1998. She holds degrees from Northwestern University, where she studied with Ray Still, the University of Iowa and the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, where she earned her doctorate as a student of Nancy Ambrose King.
Dr. Marco is a member of the Kansas City Chamber Orchestra and freelances with the Kansas City Symphony, the Kansas City Lyric Opera, and the Kansas City Ballet Orchestra. She performs with the Kansas Woodwinds, which conducted a week-long residency at the University of Costa Rica in October 2002, and holds frequent clinics and master classes throughout the Midwest. As the faculty oboist at the Ameropa Chamber Music Festival in Prague, Czech Republic, Dr. Marco has performed, coached student chamber music groups and conducted master classes each August since 2001. She has performed at the International Double Reed Conference in 1997, at Northwestern University and most recently, in June 2003 at the University of North Carolina in Greensboro.
