Margaret Fabrizio

Pianist, harpsichordist, concert artist, teacher, member of the Faculty of Music of Stanford University for 25 years, composer, performer, film maker, collage artist, painter, writer, videographer, creator of artist books. She is the first harpsichordist to perform Bach’s Art of Fugue in America. She was on the faculty at Stanford University for 25 years as Sr. Lecturer, specialising in harpsichord, fortepiano, thorough-bass, and giving workshops on the performance of Bach for Pianists. She currently teaches piano and harpsichord in Palo Alto and San Francisco. Active in the world of multi-media presentations, she has presented performances of her multi-image projections in combination with harpsichord performance in such cities as Cologne, Frankfurt, Paris, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the Ice Palace and Staedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. In 1996 she played a solo concert in Bombay featuring the works of J.S. Bach and G. Faure. Her compositions for solo harpsichord known as Holograms have been performed in America and abroad as part of American Contemporary Music for Harpsichord. Local performance/exhibits have been held at the Museum of Modern Art, the Opera House, the de Young Museum, the Palace of Fine Arts, and the Legion of Honor. Since 1980 she has been increasingly active in the visual arts. Her art books, collages, paintings, photographs and masks have been exhibited in San Francisco at the Academy of Art, the Art Institute, Shreves, Stanford University, and Focus Gallery. In 1999 she gave a one woman show of her Indian paintings at the Presidio, accompanied with Hindu ritual and entertainment. In 1986 she wrote, directed, and performed in a performance piece on the Golden Gate Bridge with Allan Kaprow as guest actor. In 1973 she performed on top of Twin Peaks on the synthesizer in a city-wide light and sound piece by Paul Crowley and Robert Moran, scored for telecast and viewer/listener participation by the entire city. She is also well-known as a collage artist, many of her works are in private collections. Her Portrait Masks have been exhibited at the Academy of Art gallery on Sutter St., and in Edinburgh, Scotland. One of her masks made of eyes appeared on an album cover of The Grateful Dead.