About the Artists
Genie Wie
A native of Chicago, Eugenia Wie made her radio debut on Chicago Public Radio at the age of nine. During her formative years, she was a recipient of a Nicolas Amati violin on generous loan from the Mary B. Galvin Foundation and Stradivarius Society. She has performed in solo and chamber music across North and South America, Asia and Europe and appeared at world renowned music festivals Val-de-Charante, Banff Music Center for the Arts, Kneisel Hall, Schleswig-Holstein, Duo Masterclasses at Lausanne, and the International Music Seminar at Prussia Cove. In 2000, she won the Frank Huntington Beebe Grant allowing her to continue her studies abroad to Cologne, Germany.
Upon her return to the states, she has served on the violin and chamber music faculty of the Music Institute of Chicago where she also acted as Program Director of Chamber Music. She has performed on the Dame Myra Hess and Sunday Salon Series, NEIU’s Mostly Music and Jewel Box Series, and Music in the Loft which was also broadcast live on WFMT radio. In this time, she was a member of Camerata Chicago, the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, and ProMusica Chamber Orchestra where she collaborated in a performance of Mendelssohn’s Octet with Vadim Gluzman.
Genie relocated to San Francisco in 2010 and is currently a member of Santa Rosa Symphony, Symphony Silicon Valley, Monterey Symphony, and substitute violinist with San Francisco Symphony, San Francisco Ballet, and Opera San Jose. An active freelancer and chamber musician, she is a member of Divisa Ensemble and guest artist with Music at the Mission in Fremont. She has also performed in the Broadway shows “Soft Power” and “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.”
Ms. Wie holds degrees from Rice University and The New School’s Mannes College of Music. Her principal teachers include Sergiu Luca, Daniel Phillips and Josef Gingold.
She has recently become a certified Yoga Tune-Up instructor and teaches rolling/stretching classes at Body Temp Yoga in the Marina neighborhood of San Francisco. She loves to snow ski, hike, and can’t wait to travel to far lands unknown again.
Kathy Marshall
Kathy Marshall played first violin for the San Francisco production of Hamilton. Other productions include Book of Mormon, Aladdin, Hugh Jackman’s One Man Show, and American Idiot. With American Idiot, she performed at the Grammy awards and played on Green Day’s Grammy award winning cast recording. Kathy has toured Japan with the Percy Faith Orchestra, Brazil with the Women’ s Philharmonic, the US with San Francisco Mime Troupe, and most recently Puerto Rico with Hamilton. She has performed in many music festivals including Key West Festival, Monterrey Jazz Festival and the Bear Valley and Mendocino Music Festivals. She also founded the Moke Hill Music Festival with her husband Allen Biggs.
An active freelancer in the Bay Area, Kathy performs with groups such as Santa Rosa Symphony, Marin Symphony, California Symphony, San Francisco Opera and San Francisco Ballet. She has recorded for numerous film scores and appeared in the movie, The Redwood Curtain. Recently she taught at Sonoma State University and San Domenico conservatory.
Kathy started the violin with her grandmother, who was one of the first women to attend Yale Music School. She is thrilled to continue the legacy of violin playing in her family! She holds a degree in Music Performance from the University of California, San Diego, where she studied contemporary music with Janos Nyegesy, Toro Takemitsu, John Cage and others. Other influential teachers include Noumi Fischer, Serban Rusu, and Leonard Austria. She also studied Spanish Literature at the University of Madrid and music at the Conservatory of Madrid, Spain.
Kathy was raised in Ventura, CA where she learned to love swimming in the ocean and the delight of having many animals around the house. She still enjoys these things in the Bay Area; swimming in the Bay and playing violin/voice duos with her dog, Moofa.