Mariana Green-Hil, a multi-year Laureate of the Sphinx Competition for young Black and Latino string players, has also been a first place winner in the Boston Symphony Orchestra Competition, the Harry and Marion Dubbs Competition, the 17th Annual NAACP Act-So Competition, and the Chinese American Art Society (including best performance of Chinese music.) Ms. Green-Hill has been a featured guest soloist with the Memphis, New Jersey, Detroit and Boston Symphony Orchestras, the Boston Pops, Symphony Pro Musica of western Massachusetts, the Civic Symphony of Boston, and the Cape Ann Symphony.

In addition to her solo performances, Mrs. Green-Hill is an experienced chamber musician and orchestral musician. She is concertmaster of the Soulful Symphony in Baltimore and has collaborated as assistant concertmaster with the Baltimore Symphony. Mrs. Green-Hill is a member of the Young Eight, a group of young African American artists that gathers for chamber music performances in Austin, Texas, Greensboro, North Carolina and Seattle Washington. For eight years she performed with the Amaryllis String Quartet. The Quartet performed with Cellist YoYo Ma at the Gala re-opening concert of Jordan Hall. A second performance with Mr. Ma included violinists Pamela Frank and Lynn Chang, and violist Marcus Thompson. Mariana Green-Hill has also participated in chamber ensembles with members of the Boston Symphony, the Houston Symphony and the Pittsburgh Symphony.

Ms. Green-Hill began studying at the age of four and was accepted into Project STEP at age five. Under the auspices of STEP (String Training Program for Students of Color), Ms. Green was granted a full scholarship to study at the New England Conservatory of Music Preparatory School at age ten. Her studies at NEC extended from 1986 to 1997. Her teachers include Farhoud Moshfegh, Marylou Speaker Churchill and Tamara Smirnova of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. At Juilliard she studied with Dean Stephen Clapp. Ms. Mariana Green-Hill has received Bachelor and Masters Degrees from the Juilliard School and a Professional Studies Diploma from the Mannes College of Music studying with Ann Setzer and Ida Kavafian.

 

 

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