Toni Marie Marchioni

Oboist Toni Marie Marchioni, who will graduate this month with a Master of Music degree, is the recipient of the fourth annual Juilliard Journal Award, given in recognition of outstanding contributions made by a student to Juilliard’s newspaper.

A native of Mechanicsburg, Pa., Toni Marie graduated from Cumberland Valley High School. She earned a B.F.A. in music, cum laude, from Harvard University, where she was the principal oboist of the Harvard Bach Society Orchestra and the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra. She was named a John Harvard Scholar for academic distinction and was the recipient of the 2005 David McCord Prize. She has also participated in the National Repertory Orchestra and the Aspen Music Festival.

Over the course of her two years as a master’s student at Juilliard, Toni Marie has covered a range of topics for The Juilliard Journal. She served as the primary interviewer of many distinguished visiting conductors (including Leonard Slatkin, Trevor Pinnock, Gerard Schwarz, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, George Manahan, and Andreas Delfs); profiled the Calder Quartet in its first year as the graduate string-quartet-in-residence; and wrote about the Mentoring program and the Carnegie-Juilliard collaboration (officially known as The Academy—A Program of Carnegie Hall, The Juilliard School, and The Weill Music Institute). In last month’s issue, she wrote the cover story about the renovation of Alice Tully Hall and the impact it will have on Juilliard and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Her interview with Stephen Clapp, who retires as Juilliard’s dean at the end of this month, appears on the cover of this issue.

In addition to writing for The Journal, Toni Marie serves as a student ambassador for Juilliard’s Office of National Advancement and Alumni Relations, a regional alumni interviewer for Harvard University, and an intern for the Juilliard-Carnegie collaboration.

Student-written articles constitute a major portion of The Juilliard Journal. The Juilliard Journal Award was created in 2004 to encourage and recognize those students who not only make writing for The Journal an integral part of their academic experience, but also keep the Publications Office aware of topics that should be covered in these pages. Students interested in writing for the paper should contact the senior editor at extension 341.