Cello

Marcia Peck

cello

Cellist Marcia Peck has been a member of the Minnesota Orchestra since 1971. She has participated in many Orchestra chamber music concerts, and in May 2009 she performed Shostakovich’s Eighth String Quartet on the Orchestra’s Chamber Music at MacPhail series.

Peck graduated from the Curtis Institute of Music and has participated in master class of Antonio Janigro at the Robert Schumann Konservatorium in Düsseldorf. She won first prize in the Mainz International Cello Competition and was a finalist in the Florence and Prague competitions. With the Bakken Quartet, she has performed the complete string quartets of Beethoven as well as the American premiere of the entire Shostakovich quartet cycle. Each summer she performs at the Grand Teton Music Festival in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

Peck is an award-winning fiction writer who has received a Minnesota State Arts Board Artists Fellowship. In summer 2007 she won a prestigious residency at the Illinois artist’s retreat Ragdale, and her first novel, Water Music, was named as one of two runners-up for the William Faulkner—William Wisdom Award. Her short story “Long Distance” was nominated for a 2005 Pushcart Prize, and her story “A Gingko in the Garden” appears in 26 Minnesota Writers, published by Nodin Press. Her writings have also been published in the essay collection Minnesota Orchestra at One Hundred and in the Orchestra’s program magazine, Showcase.