Biography

Los Angeles and Seattle based composer and cellist, Olivia Marckx writes music that is colorful and inventive, inspired by Hollywood dance movies, Scottish fiddling, and early Modernism.“Gorgeous…swirling but measured beauty” (Bandcamp). 

Olivia received honors at the 2024 NACUSA-LA National Composition Competition. Her works have been commissioned/and or performed by Tony Arnold, Simone Porter, Blake Pouliot, Aubree Oliverson, the Lyris String Quartet, and the Pacific, South Coast and San Fernando Valley Symphonies, and featured at the Aspen Music Festival, Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival, Carnegie Hall, and on the Violin Channel.

As a cellist, Olivia received silver at the Coeur d’Alene International Competition and advanced to semi-finals of the 2025 Washington International Competition. She has soloed with the Seattle Symphony and Colburn Orchestra, among others, performed with the Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival and the Seattle Chamber Music and Colburn Chamber Music Societies, and collaborated with artists such as Itzhak Perlman, Jon Kimura Parker and Time for Three. Summer festivals include the Aspen Music Festival, Yellow Barn, New Music on the Point, Perlman Music Program and the Heifetz Chamber Music Seminar.

Olivia received a BM and MM at the Colburn Conservatory working with Clive Greensmith and Robert Lipsett, and is currently an Alice and Eleonore Schoenfeld scholarship student at USC studying cello (DMA) with Ralph Kirshbaum and composition (MM) with Donald Crockett.