Kerby Louis Roberson and Mariana Green-Hill Are With ProjectSTEP and in the Documentary of The Longfellow Chorus

Kerby Louis Roberson

Mariana Green-Hill

Javier R. Caballero, Co-Artistic Director of ProjectSTEP of Boston, writes:

Hello Mr. Zick,

My name is Javier Caballero and I’m one of the Co-Artistic Directors at Project STEP, a string education program in residence at Boston’s Symphony Hall for students from underrepresented communities in Boston. I have been keeping up with your blog over the years and I appreciate your diligence in maintaining it. 

I just wanted to make an addition to one of your updates from earlier today featuring one of our students from Project STEP, Kerby Louis Roberson. Kerby started his violin training through Project STEP and has been a student in our program for the past seven years. His involvement in the documentary and festival organized by Charles Kaufmann and the Longfellow Chorus is a result of a collaboration between Project STEP and the Longfellow Chorus. 

I know some of your readers will be interested in the musical background of Kerby and where he received his training. The program will also feature Mariana Green-Hill, Co-Artistic Director of Project STEP and alumna of the program as well!

Thanks and keep up the good work!

Sincerely,

Javier R. Caballero

Co-Artistic Director

Mariana Green-Hill 

Excerpt from Bio at Four Seasons Arts

Ms. Green-Hill studied violin under the auspices of Project STEP from the age of 9 through 18. She also attended Walnut Hill School for the Arts and received her Bachelor and Masters Degrees from The Juilliard School of Music and a Professional Studies Diploma from the Mannes College of Music under the respective tutelage of Dean Stephen Clapp, Ann Setzer and Ida Kavafian.  

This year, Ms. Green-Hill was honored at the Sphinx Competition as the winner of the Sanford Allen Award in recognition of her “artistic merit, persistence, and extraordinary achievement.” Mariana Green-Hill is a Second Prize Winner of The Sphinx Competition. She has also won first place in the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Harry and Marion Dubbs Competitions. 

Ms. Green-Hill has been a featured guest soloist with the New Jersey, Memphis, Detroit, and Boston Symphony Orchestras and The Boston Pops. In addition to her solo performances, she is an experienced chamber and orchestral musician. The Amaryllis String Quartet, while she was a member, was awarded First Prize in the Fischoff Chamber Music Competition (Jr. Division). 

Ms. Green-Hill has performed with Yo-Yo Ma, Pamela Frank, Lynn Chang, Marcus Thomson, and with members of the Houston and Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestras. She was also a member of the Young Eight String Octet. She is a co-concertmaster of the Soulful Symphony that performs in collaboration with the Baltimore Symphony and is currently on the violin Faculty of the New England Conservatory of Music Pre-College Division. 

Mariana Green-Hill is a member of the MarNi Duo, a violin duo that performed for a benefit concert for  President Barack Obama in Boston’s Jordan Hall. Ms. Green-Hill has recorded with Grammy Award winning gospel artists Donnie McClurkin and Richard Smallwood, with Joss Stone and Alicia Keys and has performed with the “Gorillaz.”