Margaret Fairlie-Kennedy writes for various chamber groups,orchestra,contemporary dance and mixed media. Initially a serial composer she worked during a lengthy silent interval to develop her "own voice"in order to communicate on a deeper personal level. Awards and grants include the National Endowment for the Arts, National endowment for the Humanities.Georgia Commission on the Arts and Cornell Council for Creative and Performing Arts. She was a winner in the N.Y.Women Composers,Tampa Bay Composers Forum and the Philadelphia Classical Symphony's Maxfield Parrish competitions. Commissions include Bennington and Agnes Scott Colleges, the New Arts Gallery, Atlanta, the Walker Art Center,Minneapolis, Cornell University Theater Arts Dept, several choreographers and recent CD commissions for 20th and 21st century works. Performances include the Alabama Symphony.the Atlanta Symphony String Quartet,The Relache Ensemble, venues at Eastman School of Music, Carnegie Weill Recital Hall, several Society of Composers National Conferences, and abroad in Paris, Uppsala and the International Conference for Women, Beijing. She is published in the SCI Journal of Music Scores, also by Am. Composers Alliance and Galaxy Music Corp. CDs on Capstone, ,ACADigital and Euterpe labels. She is a member of ACA and BMI.