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Margaret McAllister has composed music for many different genres including orchestral works, choral music, string quartet, works for electroacoustic media, solo works, film, a variety of chamber ensembles and music for performance by children. She pursued her undergraduate work in film scoring at Berklee College of Music, Boston and her graduate studies in classical composition and music theory at Boston University where her principal teachers were Theodore Antoniou and Lukas Foss. She has also worked with Milton Babbitt, Oliver Knussen, Toru Takemitsu & Joan Tower. She has received fellowships and residencies from the Marion and Jasper whiting Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, the Festival at Sandpoint, Scotia Festival of Music, Centres Acanthes, Avignon and the June in Buffalo Festival. She has received commissions and performances from professional solo artists and performing ensembles and her works have been performed by the New Millennium Ensemble, Alea III, Boston Composers String Quartet, Pandora's Vox, as well as on National Public Radio and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

For ten years she has been director of Hyperprism, a contemporary concert series at Boston College and has received a grant from the National Endowment of the Humanities to explore relationships between the visual arts and music. Margaret McAllister lives in Boston, is co-president of Composers in Red Sneakers and, since 1987, has taught theory and composition at Boston College. In 2002 she was a visiting professor at Simmons College.