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Marian
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Clarinetist Marian Liebowitz, winner of the U.S. State Department/Kennedy Center 1997 Artistic Ambassador Competition, represented the United States in Latin America that year by performing a month-long tour to seven countries. Each subsequent year, Dr. Liebowitz has toured throughout Latin America under the auspices of various embassies performing concerts and offering classes in arts management, wind instruments, or chamber music. Domestic solo tours have included Utah, Oregon, Tennesee, and statewide throughout California accompanied by pianist Richard Thompson.
Dr. Liebowitz is one of a small number of wind soloists ever to be selected
for the California Arts Council Touring Artists Roster. In past seasons,
she performed concertos with the Maracaibo Symphony (Venezuela), the San
Diego Symphony, the San Diego Chamber Orchestra, the Monteux Festival
Orchestra, and the New Mexico Music Festival Orchestra. She is former
Principal Clarinetist of the San Diego Chamber Orchestra and has appeared
in such prestigious festivals as the La Jolla Music Society's SummerFest,
the San Luis Obisbo Mozart Festival, the Mainly Mozart Festival, the Sacramento
Festival of New American Music, and the Colorado Music Festival. She is
former Executive Director and clarinetist of the Arioso Wind Quintet,
with whom she recorded 3 CDs on the KOCH International label and toured
extensively throughout the U.S.
Professor of Music for the School of Music and Dance at San Diego State
University, Dr. Liebowitz was named to the campus "Top 25" list
for 1999. She was also the recipient of the 2000 CSU Bautzer Faculty Award
for excellence in fundraising and development, skills which she now uses
in behalf of the SDSU School of Music and Dance. Also at SDSU, she teaches
studio clarinet, conducts “Woodworks: The SDSU Clarinet Choir”,
and offers "Professional Orientation for Music Performers",
a popular seminar for music majors. Dr. Liebowitz also created the SDSU
Adams' Project Performers Network, an innovative professional training
program for soloists and small ensembles in music. Under these auspices,
students have performed professionally throughout California since 1992
and internationally since 1998. In addition to her arts administration
workshops abroad, Dr. Liebowitz has guest lectured on the Business of
Music at UC Davis, CSU Sacramento, the University of the Pacific, and
community colleges and high schools throughout California. Dr. Liebowitz
holds the Bachelor of Music degree from the Eastman School of Music, the
Master of Arts from Smith College, and the Doctor of Musical Arts from
the University of Southern California.