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Ms. Mollie Marcuson Adjunct Faculty, Harp M.M., Harp Performance, Rice University |
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Background
Recently appointed harpist for the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, MOLLIE MARCUSON has also appeared with the Kansas City Symphony, the Houston Symphony and the Shreveport Symphony. As an orchestra member, she has played under conductors such as Andreas Delfs, Douglas Boyd, Larry Rachleff, Hans Graf, Giancarlo Guerrero, and Gunther Schuller. Her chamber music experience ranges from Saint-Saens' Fantasy for violin and harp, and Debussy's Sonate for Flute, Viola and Harp, to larger works such as The Past/The Passion by George Tsontakis and Sparrows by Joseph Schwantner. In 2003 she participated in the chamber music series All About Women, featuring the music of Libby Larson. She has given several performances of Britten's Ceremony of Carols, most recently for the Shepherd Society's annual Madrigal Dinners in Houston. Ms. Marcuson has performed all five of the major concertos written for harp: Handel's Concerto in Bb, Debussy's Danses, Ravel's Introduction and Allegro, Mozart's Concerto for Flute and Harp, and Ginastera's Concerto for Harp, and in 2006 she gave the Houston premiere of Carlos Salzedo's Concerto for Harp and Seven Winds.She has also performed as a soloist both domestically and abroad, giving solo performances at the IBM Worldwide Workflow Conference in Vienna, Austria, and several recitals in her home state through the Tourism Arts Alliance of Kansas. In addition to performing, she has been teaching harp to students of all ages since 2000, and is currently on the faculty at the Klein School District in Spring, Texas, and at the American Festival for the Arts Summer Music Conservatory in Houston. In 2006, she joined the School of Music faculty at Stephen F. Austin State University and also teaches in the SFA Music Preparatory Division. She received her bachelor's degree in harp performance from the University of Minnesota in the spring of 2003, and her master's degree in harp performance in 2006 from the Shepherd School of Music, Rice University. Her primary instructors include Paula Page, Deborah Wells-Clark, Kathy Kienzle, Francis Miller and Alice Chalifoux.
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