ABOUT

Marley Erickson, 2003, is the grand prize winner of numerous competitions including USA National Strings Competition, Fundacja Young Arts Competition, Philadelphia International Competition, Fanny Mendelssohn International Competition, Moscow International Competition, and the Beethoven Young Musician Competition.  She is also a prize winner of the International Louis Spohr Competition, International Ilona Fehér Competition, II Piccolo Violino Magico International Competition, and participated in the Menuhin Competition in 2016 and 2018.

Marley has performed with orchestras on both sides of the Atlantic including the Seattle Symphony, Orchestra of the University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar, Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Liszt Ferenc Chamber Orchestra, l'Accademia d' Archi Arrigoni, Mitteleuropa Orchestra, Seattle Sound Ensemble, Anima Musicae, Seattle Festival Orchestra and Era Nova Orchestra. She has concertized in such venues as Walt Disney Concert Hall, Benaroya Hall, Paul Hall, Trinity Chapel, Müpa Budapest, Antico Teatro Arrigoni and the Liszt Academy’s Grand Hall.

Marley has performed in programs including The Juilliard School's Starling-DeLay Symposium on Violin Studies, Kronberg Academy's "Mit Musik-Miteinander," and Festivals including Lockenhaus Music Festival, Festival Academy Budapest, Tiberius Chamber Music Festival, Festival Kortrijk, Arsonore Festival and Seattle Chamber Music Festival. She has participated in numerous programs including the Cambridge International String Academy, The International Holland Music Sessions, and International Music Mastercourses. Marley has commissioned and performed several new works for violin, performed on Seattle's KING FM "Northwest Focus Live," and made her "New York Debut" in recital at Salon de Virtuosi. Since then, she has made a name for herself as an established concert soloist, playing numerous recitals throughout Europe, most recently making a tour of Belgium and The Netherlands with acclaimed pianist Matthieu Idmtal.

In 2016, by invitation of John Adams, Marley performed the North American Premiere of Oscar Colomina i Bosch's Shpigl on the Los Angeles Philharmonic's Green Umbrella Series at Walt Disney Concert Hall to critical acclaim: "..Shpigl will be remembered for the remarkable 13-year-old 'old soul' performer, Marley Erickson, who made it come alive.. Watch out world, here she comes." (San Francisco Classical Voice, Oct. 4, 2016).

Marley currently studies with Boris Kuschnir at the University of Graz, Austria. She received her Bachelor's degree at the Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest, studying with Kristóf Baráti and Barnabás Kelemen. Marley's previous teachers in Seattle were Simon James, Hiro David, and Jan Coleman. She has collaborated with such artists as Michał Francuz, Rohan De Silva, Nicola Eimer, Somi Kim, Jonian Ilias Kadesha, Gábor Farkás, Julian Arp, László Fenyő, Gilles Apap, and Veronika Kopjova, as well as performing under the baton of conductors such as Péter Eötvös, Gábor Takács-Nagy and Adám Medveczky.