Mari Black is an American multistyle violinist, fiddler, and composer from
Boston, Massachusetts. She has won national and international accolades in many styles of music, including being named the 2014
Glenfiddich Fiddle Champion of Scotland, 2013 & 2015 U.S. National
Scottish Fiddle Champion, 2012 & 2014
Maritime Fiddle Festival
The Maritime Fiddle Festival is the longest running old-time fiddle contest in Canada. It is also the largest fiddle contest in the region.
Occurring annually in Nova Scotia in early July, the contest currently includes seven fiddling classes, t ...
Champion, 2011 Canadian Open Novelty Fiddle Champion, 2011 1st Prize Winner of the American Protege International Piano and Strings Competition, and more. Mari has performed and taught around the United States, Scotland, Brazil, Canada, China, Korea, Zimbabwe, Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, Italy, and France. She plays many different styles of music including Irish, Scottish, Canadian, and American fiddling, Argentine Tango, jazz, klezmer, Western Classical music, and folk.
Black received a
Master of Music degree and Artist Diploma in Violin Performance from the
Yale School of Music, and a
Doctorate
A doctorate (from Latin ''docere'', "to teach"), doctor's degree (from Latin ''doctor'', "teacher"), or doctoral degree is an academic degree awarded by universities and some other educational institutions, derived from the ancient formalism ''l ...
degree in Education from
Columbia University
Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...
’s Teachers College, where she was the Geffen Fellow in Interdisciplinary Arts and Creativity.
Notable awards
* 2022 Dan R. MacDonald Fiddle Prize, Scottish Performing Arts Classic
* 2021 Freshgrass Fiddle Awards, finalist
* 2019 & 2021 U.S. Grand Master Fiddle Championships, top 10
* 2017 MASC International Songwriting Competition, Gold Medal, Instrumental category
* 2015 & 2013 U.S. National Scottish Fiddle Champion
* 2014 & 2012 Maritime Fiddle Champion
* 2014 Glenfiddich Fiddle Champion of Scotland
* 2011 Canadian Open Novelty Fiddle Champion
* 2011 American Protege International Strings and Piano Competition, 1st prize
* 2008 Columbia University Teachers College, Geffen Fellowship in Interdisciplinary Arts and Creativity
* 2007 & 2005 American String Teachers' Association Alternative Styles Award winner
Discography
* ''Unscripted'' (2020, with
Cory Pesaturo
Cory Pesaturo is an American musician from Cumberland, Rhode Island. Pesaturo is an accordion player, who also plays the piano, clarinet, and saxophone. He began playing at the age of nine, and in 2002, became the youngest person to win the Natio ...
)
* ''Flight'' (2014)
References
External links
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Living people
American violinists
American women violinists
21st-century violinists
Year of birth missing (living people)