Marcia Littley

Associate Teaching Professor, violin

Email: mlittley@fiu.edu

Office Location: WPAC 147A

Marcia Littley, violinist and founding member of the Amernet String Quartet, received her Bachelor of Music Degree from the Juilliard School as a student of Naoko Tanaka and Dorothy DeLay. As a member of the Amernet String Quartet, she was the winner of the First Prize in the Fifth Banff International String Quartet Competition; First Prize in the 1992 Tokyo International Music Competition, with the Special Asahi Award; Grand Prize winner of the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition; and First Prize winner of the Yellow Springs National Chamber Music Competition. She holds the Artist Diploma from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.

Ms. Littley’s violin teachers have included James Ceasar, Jerrie Lucktenberg, Joan Mulfinger, Won–Bin Yim and Sally O’Reilly. While at Juilliard she studied chamber music with violinist Joel Smirnoff of the Juilliard Quartet and Joseph Fuchs of the Primrose Quartet, and pianists Jacob Lateiner, Jonathan Feldman and Margo Garrett. While at UC-CCM she studied with Eminent Scholar James Tocco, the members of the LaSalle String Quartet and the Tokyo Quartet and coached with numerous other renowned musicians such as Walter Levin, Hatto Beyerle, Miriam Fried and members of the Emerson and Guarneri Quartets during summer festivals. She has appeared as soloist with orchestras in the United States and in Mexico, and has participated in music festivals including Aspen, Ravinia, Interlochen, Tanglewood, and the Isaac Stern Chamber Music Workshop at Carnegie Hall.

As a member of the Amernet String Quartet she has performed as soloist with the Cincinnati Symphony under conductor Alan Gilbert, on tour in Bucharest, Rumania as well as with the Miami Symphony in the Arsht Center in Miami. She performed for decades in major venues worldwide throughout many countries in Europe and in Israel, Australia, across much of Canada, the U.S. and Mexico, in Colombia, South Korea and in Japan.

From 1996 to 2000, Ms. Littley taught chamber music at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, and from 2000-2004 she was Artist–in-Residence at Northern Kentucky University. She teaches violin, chamber music, String Techniques and Music Appreciation at Florida international University and maintains a private studio of middle school and high school students.