Margaret Pan is a freelance carillonneur based in Boston. She began studying carillon in 2007 at Princeton University, graduated from the Belgian carillon school in 2012, and was a fellow at Bok Tower
Gardens in 2015. Margaret was a finalist in the 2019 Queen Fabiola competition in Belgium and winner of the 2017 international competition in Springfield, Illinois. She has performed across Europe and North America and has been a featured recitalist at festivals and at congresses of the Guild of Carillonneurs in North America (GCNA) and the World Carillon Federation. Margaret has taught beginning students at UC Berkeley and the University of Toronto and given master classes at Yale and Toronto. She has also served on the GCNA exam committee for over a decade, first as juror and currently as co-chair.

Margaret's academic degrees (S.B. and Ph.D.) are in physics and astrophysics and she works as an astronomer at the Smithsonian Institution studying planetary dynamics in our and other solar systems.