Margaret is thrilled to announce that she has been awarded an MBE in the New Year’s Honours for services to Music and Charitable Fundraising.

Margaret had raised enough money for British-Ukrainian Aid to send two ambulances to Ukraine. She is half way towards a third one. Watch here and help her reach her new target!

Margaret has made a short powerful video in collaboration with Viktoriia Levchenko, a young filmmaker from Ukraine to raise funds for British-Ukrainian Aid. Ukraine will rise again! is set to a stirring piano piece by the Ukrainian composer Serge Bortkiewicz, and Viktoriia has matched it with a series of extraordinary images of the devastation caused by the war.

Margaret and Bradley Creswick gave the world première of ’The Dance of the Butterfly and Flame’, composed for them by the young Iranian composer Farhad Poupel. Listen here to an extract from their performance at the Sage on 12th November 2022.

Margaret gives the world première performance at the Ryedale Festival of a new solo piano piece “Babylonia” which she commissioned from leading composer Roxanna Panufnik.
Read the reviews here. Listen to Margaret’s interview with Katie Derham on BBC Radio 3 InTune [starts at 05.10]

Margaret has reached her goal of raising £88,000 for refugees!
Her achievement was featured in Classical Music magazine and Pianist magazine
Click here to read about the acclaimed series of 32 fundraising recitals she did around the UK in 2019.

Memories from my Land’ is a beautiful, haunting piano solo which was written for her by the Kurdish composer Moutaz Arian. It was one of the most popular pieces in her programme ‘Far from the Home I Love’ which she performed around the UK to raise awareness of the plight of refugees and asylum seekers. The proceeds from the track download will go to City of Sanctuary UK to help with the work they do to make our cities welcoming places for those feeling war and persecution.