Margit Cronmueller Smith

Margit Cronmueller Smith was trained in classical piano and cello at the Mozarteum School of Music and Dramatic Arts in Salzburg, Austria, and received a Master of Arts in Music from the American University in Washington, D.C. From 1980 through 2002, Smith traveled between Germany, Kenya, the Ivory Coast, and elsewhere in Europe and West Africa to study and perform music in the tradition of the Mande kora. She passed away in Germany in 2004 from breast cancer.