Oliviana Marie is a composer, conductor, lyricist, librettist, trumpeter and pianist, as well as an accomplished singer, dancer, and actress, currently studying composition at USC’s Thornton School of Music. In 2024, Oliviana became the youngest winner of The ASCAP Foundation Sammy Cahn Award (past winners include John Mayer and Cinco Paul) and in 2023, she was the only composer to ever win two awards in the same year for ASMAC’s Composer Competition (The Ray Charles Vocal Arranging Award and The Bill Conti Big Band Arranging Award). She is a four-time Marvin Hamlisch International Music Award nominee in jazz, contemporary pop, classical composition, and winning in 2023 for best R&B song, presented by Clive Davis. Oliviana is the first female composer to be commissioned by the award-winning Camarada Music Ensemble and composed “The Elements,” which premiered in October 2024 at The Mingei Museum, in celebration of Camarada’s 30th Anniversary. Oliviana has written four award-winning musicals! At age 15, Oliviana’s first musical, THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE was mentored by the legendary Stephen Schwartz (Wicked) and presented at The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts. Her most recent musical, “CORONA’S CABARET: An Act of Destruction,” where Oliviana portrayed the Coronavirus as a nightclub singer, was the winner of PLAYBILL’S Virtual Theatre Festival. An accomplished conductor, Oliviana assisted Maestro Gustavo Dudamel and director Alberto Arvelo on the LA Phil/Deaf West production of Beethoven’s FIDELIO, as well as the San Diego Symphony’s production of Antonio Estévez’s CANTATA CRIOLLA under the baton of Rafael Payare. Oliviana had the honor of conducting the Orquestra Sinfónica Nacional de Costa Rica on her composition “Memento Mori” and has scored a dozen short films including Spin the Bottle (LA Film School), Are We Dead Yet? (AFI) and Sundown (USC). Oliviana is currently a finalist for the American Pops Orchestra’s Inaugural Ruth Wales du Pont Collegiate Composition Competition, and will compete at the beautiful Winterthur Museum in New Castle County, Delaware this March! IG: @oliviana_marie Website: olivianamarie.com