Marcia Littley de Arias

Violin

Marcia Littley, violinist, founding member of the quartet, received her Bachelor of Music Degree from the Juilliard School where she was 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 an Artist Diploma from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. Other teachers include James Ceasar, Jerrie Lucktenberg and Sally O'Reilly. She has appeared as soloist with orchestras in the United States and in Mexico, and has participated in music festivals such as Aspen , Ravinia, Interlochen, Tanglewood and the Isaac Stern Chamber Music Workshop at Carnegie Hall.

From 1996 to 2000, Ms. Littley de Arias taught chamber music at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. From 2000-2004 she was Artist–in-Residence at Northern Kentucky University. Currently, she is Artist-in Residence at Florida International University, where she teaches violin and chamber music.

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