Having graduated in the first class of Pinchas Zukerman at Manhattan School of Music in New York City, violinist Marjorie Bagley made her Lincoln Center concerto debut in 1997 with the Little Orchestra Society. She did this after beginning her performing career at the age of nine in her home state of North Carolina with the Asheville, Winston-Salem, and North Carolina Symphonies. Marjorie has also performed as soloist with the Utah Symphony, Idaho Falls Symphony, Ann Arbor Symphony, Berkshire Bach Society Orchestra, the University of Michigan Symphony, and the Washington Square Music Series. She has consistently received favorable reviews in the press from Strad Magazine, the Salt Lake Tribune, the Wiesbadener Tagblett ( Germany), and La Dauphine (France).

As first violinist and founding member of the Arcata String Quartet, Bagley performed in the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie, London’s Wigmore Hall, and across Western Europe and the United States. A touring member of the Community Concerts Series for two years, the Arcata Quartet played concerts across the United States, bringing chamber music to rural communities. Bagley has had the opportunity to play with some of the great artists of our time including members of the Guarneri, Emerson, American, Tokyo, and Borromeo String Quartets, as well as Charles Castleman, Gail Niwa, Ani Kavafian, and Kenneth Cooper. Ms. Bagley can be heard on three commercial recordings on the VOX label which include a recording of Borodin’s Quartet in A minor and his youthful String Quintet in F minor with cellist David Geber. A second recording contains Respighi’s Quartetto Dorico alongside the Tokyo Quartet’s Il Tramonto with singer Renata Scotto. The Arcata’s most recent recording contains both of Brahms’ Sextets with guests Peter Rejto and Kikuei Ikeda.

Ms. Bagley has given the world premiere performances of a number of works. She premiered Paul Chihara’s Kisses Sweeter than Wine with the Utah Symphony and conductor Keith Lockhart, and also recorded Chihara’s octet Forever Escher with the Amherst Saxophone Quartet on the New World Records label. As an active free-lance violinist and violist, Marjorie has played with the Berkshire Bach Society, made recordings of soundtracks, and performed and recorded new music. She has participated in the Grand Canyon Music Festival, the Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival, the Park City Music Festival, and the Cooperstown Chamber Music Festival.

Bagley graduated summa cum laude from the University of Michigan at the age of eighteen where she studied with Stephen Shipps. As a student of Pinchas Zukerman and Patinka Kopec, she received a master’s degree from the Manhattan School of Music. Other coaches and teachers included Josef Gingold, Rostislav Dubinsky, Isidore Cohen, and members of the Tokyo String Quartet. Other faculty positions have included Utah State University, Manhattan School of Music Preparatory Division, the Perlman Music Program, the Kinhaven Music School, as well as summers at the Brevard Music Center.

Marjorie Bagley performs on a 1708 Grancino violin.