Maggie King, a Santa Fe native and junior at the New Mexico School for the Arts, is the 2015 second-place winner in the strings division of the New Mexico Symphony Guild’s Jackie McGehee Young Artists’ Competition. She began playing the violin at age three and a half and has participated in every musical group and opportunity available to her. She began solo performances at age seven and has been part of the Santa Fe Youth Symphony organization for the last nine years, including all of the preparatory orchestras. Since 2003, she has studied with Rick Lohmann at Santa Fe Talent Education and has taken lessons from Richard Rood. For the past two years, she was awarded membership in the Preludio Summer Program at Ithaca College in New York. Before that opportunity, she attended the Summer Institute at the University of Denver, Lamont School of Music. Presently, Maggie is a member of the New Mexico All-State Symphonic Orchestra, and most recently, she was selected to participate in the National Music Educators Orchestra in Nashville. Maggie has mentored younger students in Santa Fe and recently received the Allie M. Norris Youth Leadership Scholarship from the Santa Fe Music Association for her work with young musicians. Maggie’s interests include reading, drawing, painting, swimming, and skiing. Maggie’s parents are John and Soledad King.