Margriet Ehlen (born 28 September 1943) is a Dutch poet, composer, conductor and educator of classical music.
Ehlen was born in Heerlen and has composed for a large variety of instruments, yet is particularly active in composition for voice.
[1] These works extend from solo vocalists[2] to choir music.
To this end she has utilized texts by Gerrit Achterberg, Anna Bijns, Emily Dickinson,[3] Wiel Kusters and Elly de Waard.
[4] She studied composition with Gerard Kockelmans, Willem de Vries Robbé and Robert Heppener, piano with Bart Berman and Kees Steinroth and choir conducting with Jan Eelkema.