Margaret Baxtresser

Margaret Barthel Baxtresser (June 10, 1922 – June 7, 2005) was an internationally renowned American concert

At age 13, she was a

In 1994, she became the first American artist to perform in Vietnam after the Vietnam War. The government of Vietnam invited her back on several occasions to perform. When Baxtresser died, she left her library of piano and chamber music to the Hanoi Conservatory of Music (now called The Vietnam National Academy of Music).

A supporter of the arts in her local community of

During her career Baxtresser performed as a Baldwin artist, and had two Baldwin grand pianos in her home.

At the time of her death in 2005, the Tuesday Musical Association in Akron, Ohio, established a fund to dedicate one concert each season in tribute to Baxtresser. She had been a devoted supporter of Tuesday Musical for many years. Performers who have appeared on the Tuesday Musical Margaret Baxtresser Annual Piano Concert series include piano luminaries such as Emanuel Ax, Joyce Yang, Garrick Ohlsson, Fei-Fei, Yuja Wang, Conrad Tao, and Martín García García.

Historic piano

Baxtresser left her historic

While Baxtresser owned the piano, it was played by leading composers, conductors, and concert pianists of the time who visited her home in Akron including André Watts, Leonard Slatkin, Ned Rorem, Maxim Shostakovich, Vincent Persichetti, and Vladimir Ashkenazy.^{[citation needed]}

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