MARILYN ENGLE is a Professor of Music at the University of Calgary and is also extensively involved in the Mount Royal College Academy program (for gifted youth). She has performed, taught, and lectured widely in North America, Europe, Japan, and Israel. She is also heard frequently in concert and on radio with the chamber ensemble, Aubade, of which she was a founding member.
Marilyn Engle was visiting professor at Oberlin College Conservatory and a faculty member and performer for several years in Oberlin's summer program in Italy as well as the Niagara Chamber Music Festival (ISMA). She has given classes and residencies at many centers internationally including, the Glenn Gould Professional School, the University of Toronto and New York University.
She studied at Juilliard and Aspen with Adele Marcus, Ilona Kabos, and Jeaneane Dowis; and in Europe with Peter Feuchtwanger, and Nikita Magaloff. Her doctoral studies at New York University have focused on the area of rhetorical theory as it applies to musical performance.
A laureate in the Washington International Competition, Prof. Engle was the first-prize winner of many national and international competitions including the J.S. Bach International Competition, the MTNA Competition, and the CBC Competition. In recent years she has received several Teaching Excellence Awards from The University of Calgary Students Union. Her compact disc, "Dances, Dreams...," is forthcoming.