Marylou Speaker Churchill
Violin, Orchestral Repertoire
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Marylou Speaker Churchill has given numerous recitals across the United States, and has appeared as soloist with the Boston Pops under Arthur Fiedler, John Williams and Keith Lockhart, as well as the Ural Philharmonic (Russia) under Sarah Caldwell, and orchestras in Brazil, Japan and the USA. Ms. Churchill joined the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Boston Pops in 1970 and was appointed to the position of Principal Second Violin in 1977. During her three decades with the BSO, she worked extensively with William Steinberg, Erich Leinsdorf, Leonard Bernstein, Seiji Ozawa, Sir Colin Davis, Bernard Haitink, Claudio Abbado, Klaus Tennstedt, James Levine and Andre Previn. She was a violinist with the Boston Symphony Chamber Players from 1993 until her retirement in 2000, touring in Europe and South America, and recording with them the Shostakovich Piano Quintet, which was nominated for a Grammy in 2000. In the summer of 2001, she was the violinist in the world premier at Tanglewood of Portraits for soprano, clarinet, violin, cello, and piano by Richard Danielpour with Cynthia Hayman, William Hudgins, Yo-Yo Ma, and Emanuel Ax.
Churchill was invited by Sir George Solti to be faculty and Principal Second Violin of the Carnegie Hall Solti Project in 1994, and a year later, he invited her to lead the second violins in the "Musicians of the World" orchestra concert held in Geneva, Switzerland to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the United Nations. Churchill coaches for The New World Symphony Orchestra in Miami Beach, Florida and has been a violin coach for the Asian Youth orchestra in Hong-Kong, and youth festivals in New Zealand and the USA.
Churchill is married to conductor and cellist Mark Churchill, and they have twin daughters, age twelve.
At Commencement 2006, Marylou Speaker Churchill received NEC's Louis and Adrienne Krasner Teaching Excellence Award.
B.M., NEC. Violin with Joseph Silverstein, Catherine Peterson, Raphael Spiro, and Eudice Shapiro. Chamber music with Eugene Lehner, William Kroll, Felix Galimir, Alexander Schneider, and Robert Mann. Former faculty of Tanglewood Music Center, Musicorda Summer Chamber Music Program at Mount Holyoke College, Boston University Tanglewood Institute, and University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Current faculty of New England Conservatory and the Heifetz Institute.
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