The Kotas Project

Marcia Farabee, performance librarian, is a graduate of the Capital University Conservatory of Music in Columbus, Ohio, with a BM in violin performance and music education. Prior to her work with the National Symphony Orchestra, she taught strings for the Fairfax County Public School System (VA), toured with the National Ballet, and performed with the Richmond Symphony, the NSO, the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra, the Filene Center Orchestra (Wolf Trap), and the National Theater. Her experiences in performing musicals, ballets, operas, and symphonic repertoire impacted her library work on a daily basis. Marcia has been an active member of MOLA (Major Orchestra Librarians' Association), having served as secretary, treasurer and three-time President. She also has served on the MOLA-Publisher Joint Committee and the Education Committee for a number of years; she is currently the co-chair of the Education Committee. Recently retired as Principal Librarian of the National Symphony Orchestra (Washington, DC) Music Library, Marcia is returning to her first love of playing the violin and viola, as well as continuing as a freelance librarian, gardening, sewing, and baking. In her "free" time she has begun a consulting business for small to medium budget orchestras and is serving as Clerk of Session for her church.

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This biography was provided by Marcia Farabee