The composer and reviewer Paul Corfield Godfrey wrote that "Margaret Fingerhut deserves our heartfelt admiration for her championship of the byways of the British twentieth-century piano repertory".
[2] She studied at the Royal College of Music with Cyril Smith and Angus Morrison, and afterwards with Vlado Perlemuter in Paris and Leon Fleisher and Adele Marcus in the USA.
She was also the soloist in the world première recording of Percy Young's arrangement of Elgar's sketches for his Piano Concerto slow movement, with the Munich Symphony Orchestra conducted by Douglas Bostock.
[9] Two of her Bax recordings – the Octet with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble and the Concertante for Piano Left Hand and Orchestra with Vernon Handley and the BBC Philharmonic – were short-listed for Gramophone awards.
Her CD of encores, "Endless Song", was Featured Album of the Week on Classic FM[10] and was selected as "Editor's Choice" in Pianist' as well as being awarded an "Outstanding" accolade in International Record Review.
Fingerhut is interested in working with contemporary composers and has given first performances of works by Tony Bridgewater, James Francis Brown, Peter Copley, Clive Jenkins, Farhad Poupel, Roxanna Panufnik and Paul Spicer in venues such as the Wigmore Hall, Purcell Room and at the Three Choirs Festival and Ryedale Festival.
Set to her performance of Les Rochers d’Outche-Coche by the Ukrainian composer Sergei Bortkiewicz, the video raised money for emergency vehicles in Ukraine.