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Marcus Stevenson

Marcus Stevenson
viola
Fellow
2022
Age
22
Birthplace
New Brunswick, New Jersey
School
Cleveland Institute of Music
Program
String Quartet Seminar
Compeer
Andrea and Ron Hein & Kia McInerny and Gary Kuist

Marcus earned a bachelor’s degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music, where he studied with Jeffrey Irvine. Marcus participated in the 2019 New York String Orchestra Seminar led by Jaime Laredo and is a member of The Elless Quartet, which won the Grand Prize in the 2020 Coltman Chamber Music Competition. In 2021 he took Second Prize and the Prize for a work by a BIPOC composer inthe  Ohio Viola Society Competition. Marcus is a viola teacher in the Shaker Heights Virtual Lesson Program.