Margaret Soper Gutierrez

Violinist Margaret Soper Gutierrez has enjoyed a multi-faceted musical career. She began her professional life in the Washington, D.C. area, performing as a member of the National Symphony Orchestra and touring extensively with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Soper Gutierrez performed regularly as a soloist and chamber musician on concert series at the National Gallery of Art, the Holocaust Memorial Museum and the National Cathedral. She also served as concertmaster of the Washington Bach Consort and the Baltimore Opera Orchestra and performed with the Rochester Philharmonic, the San Antonio Symphony and the Iris Chamber Orchestra.

An avid chamber musician, Soper Gutierrez was a member of the Maia Quartet, the faculty quartet-in-residence at the University of Iowa. During her tenure with the quartet, she taught and performed at the Austin Chamber Music Festival, the Castleman Quartet Program and at the Interlochen Arts Academy and Summer Camp. In addition to her University of Iowa faculty appointment, Soper Gutierrez has taught at the University of Memphis and the University of Northern Colorado.

Soper Gutierrez enjoys performing in concert series and public schools around the Front Range as a member of the Colorado Chamber Players and is currently concertmaster of both the Opera Colorado orchestra and the Colorado Bach Ensemble. Numerous chamber music performances of hers have been broadcast on Colorado Public Radio’s “Colorado Spotlight.” She has been featured in recordings on the Naxos, Crystal and Koch labels. Soper Gutierrez received a Bachelor of Music degree with High Distinction from the Eastman School of Music and a Master of Music degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music. The major teachers who have inspired her teaching and playing include Donald Weilerstein, Charles Castleman, David Updegraff and Doris Preucil.