Margaret Batjer

Margaret Batjer has served as concertmaster of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra since 1998, where she also serves as Director of Chamber Music. She is also renowned as a violin soloist, recording artist, chamber musician, and teacher, and has established herself as a versatile and respected artist worldwide.

Batjer has appeared as soloist with America’s leading orchestras including the Chicago Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, Seattle Symphony Orchestra, and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. Batjer has also performed with leading European ensembles such as the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, the Prague Chamber Orchestra, the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra (of Ireland), Berlin Symphony Orchestra, and the Hallé Orchestra.

Ms. Batjer is a faculty member at the Colburn School where she is Director of Colburn’s Music Academy, a program dedicated to training exceptional pre-college classical musicians from around the world for careers in music as well as serving on the violin faculty at both the Conservatory and the Music Academy.