Marilyn de Oliveira
Marilyn de Oliveira, cellist,
has enjoyed remarkable success as a soloist and orchestral and chamber
musician. She has participated in a number of internationally known music
festivals and been a winner in competitions.
A native of Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil, Marilyn was born into a musical family.
She started taking lessons in cello at age six and by age fifteen was playing
in the Orchestra Experimental de Repertorio in Sao
Paulo, Brazil, and giving lessons and teaching chamber music at the Conservatorio do Instituto Adventista de Ensino in Sao
Paulo.
In 1997 she came to the U.S.,
where she completed a B.Mus. degree in cello performance at Indiana University,
studying under Emilio Colón. She continued cello study under Norman Fischer at
Rice University, completing an M.Mus. in cello
performance at RU in 2003.
During her study at IU and
RU, she participated in several prestigious American music festivals, including
the Tanglewood Music Festival in Lenox,
Massachusetts, where de Oliveira received the Karl Zeise
Memorial Cello Prize; the Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston, South Carolina;
and the Kent/Blossom Music Center in Ohio. She was also a participant in the
Youth Orchestra of the Americas and has attended European music festivals.
After graduating from Rice
University, de Oliveira joined the New World Symphony under the direction of
Michael Tilson Thomas, where she was a cello fellow
for two years and served as a principal cellist during performances in Teatro Santa Cecilia, Rome, and Carnegie Hall. She became
the acting Assistant Principal cellist of the San Antonio Symphony in September
2005.
In February 2006, she was the
Bronze Award Winner in the Senior Division of the 9th Annual Sphinx
Competition in Detroit, Michigan, the highest award given that year in cello.
De Oliveira currently resides in Portland, Oregon, with her husband, Trevor
Fitzpatrick, where she is Assistant Principal cellist
with the Oregon Symphony Orchestra, a position she has held since September
2009.
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Source:
Numerous online sources (2012).