MARGI GIANQUINTO
Singer - Music Educator - Pianist - Choir Director
CT based jazz singer, music educator, pianist, church musician and choir director who has experience performing an eclectic mix of music and has a true love of harmony. Her teaching style incorporates her varied musical expertise and her daily practice of yoga/meditation. Margi’s diverse musical background makes her teaching style quite holistic, incorporating reading, ear training, singing, technique, improvisation and body/mind awareness.
Margi divides her time between numerous teaching and performance endeavors in the Fairfield County area, NYC and beyond. She is music director/pianist and singer at St. Clement of Rome in Stamford, director/pianist of The Senior Songsters and teaches private piano in CT and NYC. Since 2012, she has also been performing with her band Margi & the Dapper Dots (swing and ballroom), singing regularly in and around NYC and has built a reputation for authenticity and excellence on the traditional jazz scene.
In November of 2018 she played to a sold-out room at Birdland Jazz Club in her self-created, directed and performed tribute to the great Jo Stafford. In June of 2017 she made her debut at Midsummer Night Swing at Lincoln Center (Swing/Ballroom) and at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall. Margi has given performances of her own creation at Mohonk Mountain House (Dec 2019), Mezzrow Jazz Club, The Metropolitan Room, The Jalopy Theater, and other venues. She has appeared by invitation as part of shows at Urban Stages, The Players Club, The Laurie Beechman Theater, The American Popular Song Society, Iridium Jazz Club, The Friars Club, The NY Hot Jazz Festival and more, having the good fortune to sing with some of the very best musicians on the NYC scene.
Margi graduated Magna Cum Laude with a degree in music and humanities from Providence College. Before switching over to the jazz world in the fall of 2012, she had worked as a professional Alto in a number of NYC based choirs, music directed/accompanied a children’s musical at The Lee Strasberg Institute in the fall of 2011, and was active in the Brooklyn folk scene. Through 2012, she maintained a teaching studio in Greenwich, CT and taught piano at The Greenwich Country Day School for six years. While in Greenwich she also taught group music theory/sight singing to the choristers of Christ Church, Greenwich. Around that time, she also collaborated with her sister, Mary Pierce, on an album of her sister’s original folk songs, arranging/performing on piano, guitar and harmonic vocals.
Margi continues to enjoy incorporating all of her various musical interests and mindfulness explorations and experiences into her teaching and looks forward to continuing to do so at Long Ridge Music Center.
Singer - Music Educator - Pianist - Choir Director
CT based jazz singer, music educator, pianist, church musician and choir director who has experience performing an eclectic mix of music and has a true love of harmony. Her teaching style incorporates her varied musical expertise and her daily practice of yoga/meditation. Margi’s diverse musical background makes her teaching style quite holistic, incorporating reading, ear training, singing, technique, improvisation and body/mind awareness.
Margi divides her time between numerous teaching and performance endeavors in the Fairfield County area, NYC and beyond. She is music director/pianist and singer at St. Clement of Rome in Stamford, director/pianist of The Senior Songsters and teaches private piano in CT and NYC. Since 2012, she has also been performing with her band Margi & the Dapper Dots (swing and ballroom), singing regularly in and around NYC and has built a reputation for authenticity and excellence on the traditional jazz scene.
In November of 2018 she played to a sold-out room at Birdland Jazz Club in her self-created, directed and performed tribute to the great Jo Stafford. In June of 2017 she made her debut at Midsummer Night Swing at Lincoln Center (Swing/Ballroom) and at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall. Margi has given performances of her own creation at Mohonk Mountain House (Dec 2019), Mezzrow Jazz Club, The Metropolitan Room, The Jalopy Theater, and other venues. She has appeared by invitation as part of shows at Urban Stages, The Players Club, The Laurie Beechman Theater, The American Popular Song Society, Iridium Jazz Club, The Friars Club, The NY Hot Jazz Festival and more, having the good fortune to sing with some of the very best musicians on the NYC scene.
Margi graduated Magna Cum Laude with a degree in music and humanities from Providence College. Before switching over to the jazz world in the fall of 2012, she had worked as a professional Alto in a number of NYC based choirs, music directed/accompanied a children’s musical at The Lee Strasberg Institute in the fall of 2011, and was active in the Brooklyn folk scene. Through 2012, she maintained a teaching studio in Greenwich, CT and taught piano at The Greenwich Country Day School for six years. While in Greenwich she also taught group music theory/sight singing to the choristers of Christ Church, Greenwich. Around that time, she also collaborated with her sister, Mary Pierce, on an album of her sister’s original folk songs, arranging/performing on piano, guitar and harmonic vocals.
Margi continues to enjoy incorporating all of her various musical interests and mindfulness explorations and experiences into her teaching and looks forward to continuing to do so at Long Ridge Music Center.