Marian Liebowitz, D.M.A.

Building/Location

5500 Campanile Drive
San Diego, CA 92182

Bio

Marian Liebowitz is an acclaimed musician, professor, consultant, and executive director with international credentials. She earned her B.M. at the Eastman School of Music, her M.A. from Smith College, and her D.M.A. from the University of Southern California. She was hired by SDSU in 1984 and taught a variety of performance courses while leading the woodwind division. Drawing on her extensive professional experience, she introduced to the music curriculum pioneering courses that provided students with training in business and professional development. 

As a professional classical clarinetist, she appeared on stages the world over. Winner of the U.S. State Department/Kennedy Center 1997 Artistic Ambassador Competition, she was one of a small number of wind soloists ever to be selected for the California Arts Council Touring Artists Roster. Drawing on her years of experience as a touring artist, Marian brought her professional expertise back to the classroom as a curricular innovator who created three arts entrepreneurship courses: Professional Orientation for Performers; Community Outreach Practicum, and; Volunteerism in The Arts. Mentoring students and providing them with performance opportunities and professional experience, she encouraged her students to look beyond the next gig and to view the larger professional picture. 

After retiring as a clarinetist, Marian founded her own professional booking agency, and Marian Liebowitz Artist Management (MLAM) has flourished ever since. Marian has served as a booking agent since 1992, when she founded the San Diego State University Adams’ Project Performers Network. The Adams’ Project was a booking agency for emerging student, alumni, and faculty performers. Under these auspices, the best SDSU musicians were booked at well over 150 events per year nationwide. She launched Heartpower Performances in 2009 with the express purpose of sending musicians into venues with at-risk audiences such juvenile offenders, disabled veterans, hospitalized patients, and any population that can’t normally attend public concerts. Her clients and students alike have reaped the benefit of Marian’s dual career track, first as a globe-trotting classically trained concert clarinetist, then later as a college professor. Marian is a past recipient of the California State University Bautzer Faculty Award for excellence in fundraising, a skill she now uses to advise her organizational clients. She is also a successful grant writer, having secured funds from such notable organizations as the National Endowment for the Arts, the Disabled American Veterans Charitable Trust, and the California Arts Council.