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Margaret Steele
Biography Based in the New York City area, Margaret Steele's performances as both a magician and musician have taken her to Europe, Japan, Australia and South America, as well as throughout the U.S. and Canada. Her magic has been featured on television in Grand Illusion, The Story of Magic (Discovery Channel Canada), Today in New York (WNBC) and The Magic Mystery School. (CBC). She has designed and performed magical family programs for the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, Hudson Valley Philharmonic and the U.S. Army Band at West Point and has been featured at the Magic Castle in Hollywood, and regularly performs at international festivals, corporate events and aboard cruise ships. When at home in New Jersey, she is a top childen's entertainer in the New York City area. Margaret is also a writer of music and magic stage programs. Woodwind Wizardry debuted at the Harlem School of the Arts and is currently on the Arts-in-Education rosters of both the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra and the Queens Symphony Orchestra. Her earlier show, Young Wolfgang, was presented Off-Broadway at NYC's Vineyard Theatre. Her orchestral family concert, Enchanted Mother Goose (to the music of Ravel) made its debut with the New Sussex Symphony and was most recently presented at the Rhinebeck Center for Performing Arts, alongside her orchestral Christmas show, The Magical Holiday Elves. Her newest orchestral program, Spells and Enchantments, (a Halloween program) debuted October 2000 with the Queens Symphony Orchestra. She is currently developing her one-woman play, Adelaide, Queen of Magic, about the life and magic of Vaudeville star, Adelaide Herrmann. In addition to pursuing magic professionally,
Margaret, a graduate of The Juilliard School, has played oboe with (among
many others) the American Symphony Orchestra, Opera Orchestra of New York
and American Ballet Theatre. She has played on Broadway in the orchestras
of ten different musicals.
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