MARCOLIVIA

Marcolivia is an award-winning violin and violin/viola duo, performing music of all styles and periods, from French Baroque to folk music, jazz and virtuoso works, as well as their own transcriptions of Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro, The Magic Flute and Paganini Caprices, among others. The Marcolivia Duo has been featured many times on NPR's "Performance Today" and “Front Row Washington”. They have been regular guest artists at the Tokyo College of Music, Japan, and have performed for the Federal Reserve Board in Washington DC, for the Hungarian American Coalition at the Cosmos Club, and annually at the Phillips Collection (where they are included on several CDs of Series Highlights and Distinguished Performers), also the Kennedy Center, Strathmore, Cleveland Museum Of Art, Merkin Hall and Symphony Space, NYC. They were featured artists in Elan Magazine.

In 2011, Marcolivia was invited to be founding members of the Phillips Camerata, based at the Phillips Collection and the National Gallery, Washington DC and performing annually at the two venues. The duo also performs double concertos regularly with most of the DC area orchestras as well as several in California’s Bay Area. In 2015, Marcolivia was invited to perform at the National Gallery with the St Petersburg State Orchestra of Russia and the National Gallery Orchestra. In 2022, Marcolivia gave the world premiere of Benedikt Brydern’s Zodiac Concerto in Washington DC. 

Marcolivia performed at Chamber Music America's 25th Anniversary Concert in NYC, alongside groups such as the Juilliard Quartet and were the only chamber music finalists in the Concert Artists Guild International Competition in 2000. The duo is on the roster of the Millenium Stage at the Kennedy Center and the Virginia Commission For The Arts Touring Roster. Marcolivia has worked with Washington Performing Arts for more than a decade as adjudicators, coaches and performers. 

During the summers, Marcolivia have performed and taught abroad at festivals including Adriatic Music Festival (Italy), International Festival of Deia (Mallorca), Costa Rica Music Festival, and Dartington International Festival (UK). US festivals have included Garth Newel Music Center, Blue Mountain (PA), Las Vegas Music Festival, Middlebury Festival (VT), Shenandoah Performs and the Heifetz Institute. Marc and Olivia teach privately in Vienna, VA. Olivia Hajioff and Marc Ramirez enjoy successful individual solo and chamber music careers: Olivia, a Fulbright scholar, received a BBC Young Musician of the Year Award and was also a prize winner in the European Violin competition. As a 7 year old, she was the youngest ever student at the Royal Academy of Music in London. In her native England she has performed chamber music at the Dartington International Festival with David Owen Norris and Stephen Kovacevich. She has also performed with Edgar Meyer, Awadagin Pratt, Jamie Bernstein and Led Zeppelin. She has concertized throughout Europe and the U.S. notably in London’s Wigmore Hall, the South Bank, Cheltenham Festival, Paderewski Hall in Switzerland, and the Kennedy Center. Arnold Steinhardt (Guarneri Quartet) described her as a “compelling performer”. As a poet, Olivia has been published in over 20 literary journals. She was the Grand Choice Winner of the Laura Jackson Poetry