In Memoriam

margaret knight

July 3, 1938 – May 7, 2023

Margaret E. Knight passed away on May 7, 2023 at the age of 84 in Southampton, NJ; a beloved wife of 44 years to the Rev. Arthur J. Knight.

Margaret Knight was a musician and a private piano teacher in Shamong, NJ, who had been teaching in her own studio since she came to the United States from England in 1972.

Margaret served as President of the New Jersey Music Teachers Association from 1992-1994. Her other positions included Director of Student Activities for the South Jersey Music Teachers Association, Historian and Coordinator of the High School Scholarship for NJMTA. In 2010, Margaret was named  Music Teachers National Association Foundation Fellow for distinguished service to the music profession. In 2013, she was awarded the NJMTA Service Award given to a board member whose invaluable contribution have impacted the NJMTA as an organization.

Active in her field, she served as representative, for New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware,  for the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music in London from 1991 to 2008. As a developmental consultant for the organization, she introduced the prestigious ABRSM examination program for all instruments and music theory on the Tri-State area.

She has since been included in more than twenty editions of Who’s Who, including Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in American Education and Who’s Who in Entertainment. On November 12, 1999, she was also featured in the article, Practicing the Piano, The American Way Horrifies the British, published in the Wall Street Journal as a page one feature.

To honor the immense impact and contribution of the late Margaret Knight to NJMTA, the High School Scholarship has been renamed the Margaret Knight High School Scholarship.