Margaret-Mary Sauppe (nee Owens) earned her Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) and Master of Music (MM) in Organ Performance and Literature from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY after studying with Nathan Laube, William Porter, Anne Laver, Edoardo Bellotti, and Lisa Crawford. She received her Bachelor of Music (BM) at The Florida State University with Dr. Iain Quinn. Dr. Sauppe is a respected piano and organ teacher, and has been a lecturer, teacher, and involved board member for local AGO chapters since 2013. An active researcher, her primary interest has focused on the keyboard works of astronomer Sir William Herschel, partially published in the Organ Historical Society’s (OHS) journal The Tracker (Oct 2023). Her most recent article for the OHS involved publishing newly declassified documents in “Charles B. Fisk and His Work on the Atomic Bomb.” (Jan 2025). Sauppe has performed numerous concerts across the United States. In April 2023, she performed her international debut on the 1746 Hildebrandt “Bach” organ in Naumburg, Germany, which was broadcast on the Belgian internet radio Organroxx.
Some of her awards include academic scholarships from the Eastman School of Music and The Florida State University (2013-2022), travel and research grants through the Eastman School of Music and the Rochester chapter of the American Guild of Organists (AGO) (2023, 2020), the Clarence R. Warrington Organ Scholarship (2019-2022), a research grant from the OHS (2020), and an OHS Biggs Fellowship (2016). While at Eastman, Sauppe assisted in the production of the Rochester Celebrity Organ Recital Series (RCORS), the Third Thursdays with Eastman’s Italian Baroque Organ at the Memorial Art Gallery concert series, and she founded her own monthly concert series First Fridays at St. Mary’s in 2020. You can learn more about Dr. Sauppe at margaretmarysauppe.com.
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