Orchestra Director

Margaret Selby

Margaret Selby is the orchestra director and 2020-21 Teacher of the Year at Laing Middle School in Charleston, SC where she grew the program from 42 to over 200 students in five years. She was the 2022 Featured Clinician for the Orchestra Division of the Texas Music Educators Association (TMEA) and is a contributing author of Rehearsing the Middle School Orchestra, published by Meredith Music and distributed by GIA. She has conducted at the Interlochen Arts Camp, the West Virginia Junior All-State Orchestra, and multiple regional orchestras in Texas and across the Southeast. Mrs. Selby has presented sessions for the 2022 Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic, the national ASTA conference, the Texas Orchestra Directors Association (TODA), and state music educator conferences in New Mexico, Georgia, and South Carolina and has adjudicated orchestras in Las Vegas and South Carolina. She served as the President for the SCMEA Orchestra Division and is currently the SCMEA Orchestra Division Region 4 Representative. Mrs. Selby is the 2017-18 String Educator of the Year awarded by Southern String Supply. She earned degrees in Music Education and Cello Performance from the University of South Carolina, studying under Dr. Robert Jesselson. She has performed with the South Carolina Philharmonic, the Charleston Symphony, and regularly as a freelance cellist. She is a registered Suzuki cello teacher, and is currently co-writing the upcoming Habits of a Successful Young String Musician, a beginner method book (GIA). Mrs. Selby lives in Mt. Pleasant, SC with her husband and their two crazy teenagers. She enjoys running and sampling Charleston’s many amazing restaurants.