Maureen Murchie is Concertmaster of the Bismarck-Mandan Symphony Orchestra and a member of the Handel & Haydn Society. Recent engagements include Trinity Baroque Orchestra, Voices of Music, NOVUS NY, Helicon, American Classical Orchestra, New York Baroque Incorporated, The Sebastians, El Mundo, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, and the Broadway pits of Tootsie, Parade, and Farinelli and the King. In December 2021 she performed the viola solo in Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante with violinist Aisslinn Nosky and the American Classical Orchestra at Alice Tully Hall.

Maureen holds a doctorate from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she wrote a dissertation on the history of the Sendai Philharmonic Orchestra. Having grown up in Japan and attended Japanese schools through high school, Maureen is fluent in Japanese and in demand as a Japanese translator, interpreter, and editor.  maureenmurchie.com