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Peggy Vagts (pav@cisunix.unh.edu) holds the academic rank of full professor and teaches flute and music literature at the University of New Hampshire. A native of Iowa, Prof. Vagts received her B.M. from Morningside College and her M.M. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is a winner of the National Flute Association's "Competition for Professional Performers" and she has received a College of Liberal Arts Teaching Excellence Award from UNH. An active performer, Prof. Vagts is a member of the New Hampshire Symphony Orchestra and has been a member of the New Hampshire Music Festival Orchestra, the Portland Symphony Orchestra, Atlantic Chamber Soloists, Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, Sioux City Symphony and the UNH Faculty Woodwind Quintet. She has a special interest in the music of women composers and has presented lecture-recitals on this topic for the First National Congress National Flute Association Convention in Los Angeles, the College Music Society in Washington D.C., the Greater Boston Flute Association and various universities. Prof. Vagts has published related articles in The Flutist Quarterly and The American Music Teacher, and she also presented papers at the First National Congress on Women in Music (New York University) and the Music Teachers National Association in Salt Lake City. She was Chairperson of the Department of Music from 1997-2002. |