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Alicia Marial
- born in Chicago
- Member of the orchestra since 2006
- Chamber music at the Konzerthaus Berlin: Quartett Polaris, Konzerthaus Kammerorchester
Alicia Marial studied at the University of Illinois and the Manhattan School of Music. Before joining the Konzerthausorchester, she was concertmaster of the second violins in the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra in Pennsylvania and a scholarship holder at the Academy of the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin.
What would you be doing if you hadn’t become a musician?
I can’t remember ever not wanting to be a musician. But if I had to choose something else, it would be a restorer. I would be the person with the tiny brushes, trying to get the colours of a historical building or painting just right, millimetre by millimetre.
Is there an instrument other than your own that you would like to master?
I wish I could play guitar and sing rock classics.
Which favourite place in Berlin do you recommend when you have visitors?
I always take my guests to Gendarmenmarkt. The concert hall is the reason I’m here. When I show them the overwhelming beauty of the square and the splendour of the hall, I become quite humble, grateful and so happy that I can play there. So it’s no mystery why I chose to live here – so far away from home.