Education
Juilliard School; Mills College.
Juilliard School; Mills College.
Her career included teaching positions at Lebanon Valley Conservatory (Pennsylvania), Bishop School (California), Washington State University (Washington), Gonzaga University (Washington), Payap University (Thailand), and most notably, Whitworth College (Washington), where she taught for 25 years and was chair of the piano department. After graduating from Mills College (California), she attended the Juilliard School (New York), where she studied with Moriz Rosenthal, Sasha Gorodnitzky, and Olga Samaroff Stokowski. She later became Madame Samaroff"s assistant, traveling with her to Los Los Angeles
With the blessing of Madame Samaroff, Margaret (better known as "Margie May"), returned to the Pacific Northwest to marry Franklin Ott, raise a family, and to teach and perform.