Marka Gustavsson

Viola

As violist of the award winning Colorado Quartet, Marka Gustavsson has been invited for several seasons to the Bard Festival, has performed twelve Haydn quartets for the Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center, and has presented the entire Beethoven Quartet cycle internationally and in the United States. The Colorado Quartet has recently released their recordings of the three Beethoven Quartets Opus 59, and Opus 74 "the Harp" on the Parnassus label. As violinist and violist, Ms Gustavsson has appeared as guest artist of the Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society on their "Meet the Music" series, and has been featured on Robert Sherman's WQXR's Young Artists' Showcase, as well as the ABC Sports documentary "Passion to Play". Internationally she has performed as soloist at the Banff Centre with the Calgary Philharmonic, in Amsterdam for the Queen of the Netherlands, and as chamber musician in the Festival Presence de Ligeti in Paris, at Pundquit in the Philippines, and at Takemitsu's memorial in Tokyo. Ms Gustavsson has worked with composers Martin Bresnick, Tan Dun, John Halle, Joan Tower, and Richard Wernick and has performed with such artists as David Sawyer, Michael Tree, Marc Johnson, Karl Leister, and Anton Kuerti. Marka currently serves on the faculties of Bard College and Soundfest with the Colorado Quartet. Additionally she performs with the Blue Elm Trio, Invention!, and pianist/composer/husband John Halle. She has earned degrees from Indiana University, Mannes College, and CUNY, where her teachers have included Mimi Zweig, Josef Gingold, Felix Galimir, and Daniel Phillips.