Maggie McClellan has spent the last or last 20+ years in Seattle. Though she wound up her long career as an elementary school music teacher, she continues to direct the Phinney Neighborhood Community Chorus, which she founded in 1999.  Maggie’s training includes an exciting two year period studying methods and choral conducting at the Kodály Institute in Kecskemet, Hungary, She has degrees in dance and music composition, and in Music Education. She is very interested in building community, she’s an animal and vegetable lover, a member of the Bahá’í Faith, and she is currently engaged in establishing her mother’s musical legacy by digitizing scores and recordings of her mom’s musical compositions and making these available to the public for the first time.

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Announcing the 2021 ASP and Gallery Artists!

June 1, 2021

Jack Straw has awarded residencies in the 2021 Artist Support Program to 17 artists and artist teams spanning multiple disciplines and genres. Eight artists/teams were awarded 20 hours of recording and production time with an engineer in our studio. Nine additional artists/teams will receive matching awards. All artists are provided with training, events, and other […]

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Top: arx duo, throwing sticks in the air; bottom: Reggie Garrett, holding an acoustic guitar

Categories: Artist Support Program, New Media Gallery

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