Margaret Ferrell Vardell Sandresky (born 28 April 1921) is an American composer, organist and teacher.
Sandresky’s father Charles Gildersleeve Vardell was a composer and the dean of music at Salem College.
She earned a BM from Salem College in 1942 and a MM from the Eastman School of Music in 1944, then got a Fulbright scholarship to study at the Hochschule für Musik in Frankfurt, Germany in 1955.
Sandresky’s teachers included Harold Gleason, Howard Hanson, Kurt Hessenberg, Bernard Rogers, and Helmut Walcha.
[1][6][7] [2][8] Sandresky taught at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, the University of Texas at Austin, the North Carolina School of the Arts, and the Salem Academy and College.