Marcie Richardson
Marcie Richardson, NVP of Extension and Fraternity Development, has an extensive background in classical and popular music. She has been Assistant Conductor with numerous opera and theater companies including the Cincinnati Opera, Pittsburgh Opera, Mississippi Opera, Central City Opera and Arizona Opera. She has worked with Musical Theater of Arizona and Phoenix Little Theater. While residing in New York she also performed with St. Luke’s Chamber Orchestra Children’s Free Opera, Il Piccolo Teatro dell’Opera and Bel Canto Opera and studied extensively with Joan Dornemann both in her private studio and at the Metropolitan Opera.
Marcie holds a Master’s Degree in Music from the University of Cincinnati-College Conservatory of Music, doing post-graduate work in Austria at The Franz Schubert Institute and The American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz. She earned her Bachelors Degree in Accompanying at Arizona State University.
Among the many stars of the classical and popular musical world, Marcie has accompanied such fine artists as the world renowned violinist Eugene Fodor and the international star of stage and screen, Theodore Bikel. She has served as Staff Accompanist at The Arizona State University School of Music, as well as the Musical Director of The Valley Youth Theater in Phoenix. In 1985 she joined the staff of the Delta Queen Steamboat Company and has served on all three of that company’s paddlewheel steamboats – the Mississippi Queen, the American Queen, and the Delta Queen Featured in her own solo classical concert as well as appearing as a member of the ensemble she also lectured on river history as Riverlorian and managed the Shore Excursion Program until she left the river in 2006.
Marcie currently resides in Memphis, TN serving as organist at St. Mary’s Catholic Church and coach-accompanist for a variety of performing artists. She has performed with Opera Memphis both in educational outreach programming such as both Senior and Junior Opera Camp, Black Roots of Opera school programs and the Negro Spiritual Scholarship Foundation Competition, as well as in the preparation of the main season productions. At the University of Memphis/Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music, she serves as coach/accompanist for the Opera Studies Department, on the administrative staff as the school’s Scheduling Coordinator, and as a member of the faculty of the Memphis Opera and Song Academy since its creation by Susan Owen-Leinert in 2007.
A proud member of Sigma Alpha Iota since 1975, she has held numerous offices including president in both her college and various alumnae chapters, served as a Gamma Mu Chapter Advisor and Omega C Province Officer, and was instrumental in the re-chartering of the Memphis Alumnae Chapter. She has been awarded a College Chapter Service Award, Dean’s Honor Certificate, College Honor Award, College Chapter Leadership Award, Sword of Honor, Rose of Honor and Rose of Dedication. Immediately prior to her election to the NEB, she concurrently served as Psi C Province Officer, Project Coordinator for SAI Philanthropies, Inc., and official accompanist for the 2009 Triennial Convention in Chicago.