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Marie is also an archivist at the Pennsylvania State Archives in Harrisburg, PA.

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Marie Valigorsky

Marie Valigorsky is a violist, pianist and accomplished composer who is originally from the central Pennsylvania area. She has performed with the York Symphony Orchestra, the Gettysburg Chamber Orchestra, and the Shippensburg University Community Orchestra. She plays viola with the West Shore Symphony Orchestra, and composes music and performs with a chamber ensemble, Sempre Dolce, founded in Harrisburg. 

Marie studied viola with Alice Bish in central PA, and is currently studying cello with Barb Lewis. During her undergraduate music studies at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, PA, Marie studied with composers David Stock and Amanda Ford. Her Master of Fine Arts degree in Music Performance and Composition was earned at Bennington College in Vermont, where she studied with violist Ann Roggen, violinist Kaori Washiyama, and composer Allen Shawn. She taught music theory, aural skills (sight-singing), composition and piano lessons at Bennington. Marie also coached her own compositions with the Bennington String Quartet and other chamber ensembles.

After graduating from Bennington College, Marie lived in New York City for seven years, where she founded the Brooklyn Emerging Artists, a performing artists non-profit, with colleagues from Bennington College. The group organized 15 concerts and commissioned original new music from local composers and performers in the NYC area.

Marie teaches violin, viola, and cello lessons in the Harrisburg area, and is active as a performer and composer in the Harrisburg music scene. She performs at the West Shore Theatre with the chamber group, Sempre Dolce.

Compositions

• In Sleep, three movements for string quartet, January 2000. Performed 3/29/2000.
• Circles, for electric viola and looping device, February 2001. Performed 4/19/2001.
• A Collection of Far Away Things, for solo oboe and piano, February 2001. Performed 4/29/2001.
• Cars, short film with music, March 2001. Performed live with film, 4/29/2001.
• This Half of You, This Half of Me, for large chamber ensemble, December 2001. Performed 2/7/2002 and 2/9/2002, conducted by David Stock at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA.
• Home, short film with synthesizers, January 2002. Performed 2/9/2002.
• Quartet, for clarinet, violin, cello, and piano, February 2002.  Performed 2/9/2002.
• Snow Falling, film installation, February 2002. Performed 2/9/2002. 
• Waiting – Receiving, trio for flute, oboe, and cello, March 2002. Performed 3/18/2002 and 10/30/2016.
• June, July, for violin and viola, July 2003. Performed 7/31/2003.
• In Memory of Steuben, for string quartet, December 2004. Performed 12/15/2004, 5/27/2005, 5/25/2006, and 4/26/2019.  
• Clouds, for cello and piano, April 2005. Performed 5/5/2005 and 5/17/2005, 12/8/05.
• Dirge, for soprano, clarinet, string trio, and contrabass. Performance pending.  
• The Six, Six Miniatures for violin and piano, 2006. Performed 12/8/2005 and 5/25/2006.
• Pompeii, for small orchestra and piano reduction (deux pianos), 2006.   Performed 5/25/2006.  
• Meditation, for piano trio, April 2006. Performed 5/23/2006 and 5/25/2006.
• Pompeii, for full orchestra, 2006. Performed 5/20/2007.
• Fugitive Visions, for piano trio, 2008. Performed April 2008.
• Pi, for string trio, violin, viola, and cello, 2010. Performed 2010, 2019.
• Wind – Piano Trio, for violin, cello, and piano, 2012. Performed 4/20/2012.
• August, for string quartet with flute/string quintet, 2015. Performed 2015-2021.
• Mountains, for string quintet, 2018. Performed 11/2018 and 8/2019.
• Mutations, for string quintet, 2023. Performed 3/2023.