Marsha Schweitzer
Bassoon
Marsha Schweitzer, Associate Principal Bassoon of the Honolulu Symphony and bassoonist of the Spring Wind Quintet, graduated from Oberlin College. She has studied bassoon with Leonard Sharrow, Kenneth Moore, Artemus Edwards, Steven Maxym, and chamber music with Marcel Moyse. Marsha has been principal bassoonist of the Hawaii Chamber Orchestra, Hawaii Symphony, Maui Symphony, and the Honolulu City Ballet Orchestra, and appeared as soloist with the Hawaii Chamber Orchestra in 1977, the Honolulu Symphony in 1986, and Chamber Music Hawaii in 2000. From 1994 to 2000 Marsha was a member of the Cleveland Ballet/Opera Orchestra. Marsha is a music publisher and a prolific arranger, having expanded the chamber music repertoire through her many arrangements and transcriptions, many of which are published and recorded. Marsha co-founded and served as the initial executive director of Chamber Music Hawaii and now administers Live Music Awareness, an organization that sponsors musician-run projects. Also active in the labor movement, she currently serves as Secretary-Treasurer of the Musicians' Association of Hawaii, Local 677 AFM. In the 1990's Marsha became nationally known as a labor journalist and from 1996 to 2002 edited Senza Sordino, the newsletter of the International Conference of Symphony and Opera Musicians. Marsha has won numerous awards in labor journalism from the Western Labor Press Association and the International Labor Communications Association.
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