Multi-award-winning composer, pianist, performer and recording artist Margaret Brandman has received wide acclaim for her powerful compositions, characterized by an original tonality, melodic richness, sensitive harmonies and rhythmic ingenuity. She has twice received the ‘Best Foreign Composer’ award from the Artemis Film Festival (USA) in 2019 and 2021. Her output includes works for orchestra, chamber ensembles, choir, solo voice, and solo instruments, composed across a wide range of genres from ‘Contemporary Classical’ through to Jazz and Latin-American. Her orchestral works have been recorded by the Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra and are available in several albums on Parma Recordings’ Navona Label. Her recent chamber works for ‘cello with piano, and violin with piano, have been recorded at Elkwood Studios in the Blue Mountains. Her music is performed regularly in concerts around the world and receives frequent international airplay.

“The music is melodious and intricate, beautifully played.... pieces straddle that indefinable line between jazz and contemporary classical / new music.” Jane Mann, London Jazz News 2017