Professor of Music: Violin and Viola
246 Performing Arts Center
mjudish@stcloudstate.edu / (320) 308-3289
Dr. Marion Judish is currently Professor of Violin and Viola at St. Cloud State University in St. Cloud, Minnesota. She received a Bachelor of Music Degree in Violin Performance at the University of Colorado Music School in Boulder, Colorado. She earned her Masters of Music and Doctoral of Music Degrees at the University of Minnesota's School of Music in Minneapolis. She has been with the Music Department at SCSU since 1989. This semester is her first as orchestra conductor of the St. Cloud State chamber strings.
Dr. Judish has been concertmaster of the St. Cloud Symphony for the past twenty-eight years. She is currently concertmaster of the Wayzata Symphony in Minneapolis as well as the Amadeus Chamber Symphony serving the Central Minnesota area.
Before coming to Minnesota,Marion was an active studio musician for several recording companies throughout the metro Denver area.She performed as soloist with the Colorado Symphony and was concertmaster of the Brico Symphony in Denver.She founded the Boulder String Quartet, the St. Cloud String Quartet, the Tresca String Quartet and most recently, the Rosamunde String Quartet.
As an avid supporter of new music, she has performed for the Composer's Forum in Minneapolis on several occasions.She presented the premiere performance of the "Ghost Opera" for Pipa (Chinese Harp) and string chamber orchestra.She also recently performed “Dead Elvis” with the Fargo-Moorhead Symphony, "Three Mysteries" for Violin and Percussion by Daniel Dorff, "Journey" by Melissa Krause, “Lex” for violin and percussion by Michael Daugherty,“Hi Mozart” by Hartmust Hochmair, and“Chimera II” by Dr. Scott Miller.
