Marianne LaCrosse, Executive Director

Marianne LaCrosse has more than two decades of experience in the field of classical music. A passionate advocate for the arts, Marianne is recognized for her fierce work ethic, attention to detail, and passion for supporting established performers as well as emerging artists and administrators.

Marianne served as General Manager and Education Programs Director at Music@Menlo from 2005 to 2021. She joined the acclaimed summer chamber music festival and institute two years after it was founded by cellist David Finckel and pianist Wu Han and was an integral part of the team that grew the organization from a small startup to an internationally-recognized organization that now attracts more than 10,000 chamber music lovers to the Bay Area each year.

In her dual role, she oversaw the Festival’s production and operations, as well as Music@Menlo’s Chamber Music Institute for emerging and pre-professional musicians and the Arts Management Internship Program for college students and young alumni. She has worked with hundreds of young musicians and burgeoning arts administrators. Marianne was honored to be recognized among Musical America’s Worldwide Top 30 Professionals of the Year for 2019.

In 2022, she founded Suòno Artist Management, a boutique artist management agency with a diverse artist roster, promoting innovative and thought-provoking programming and educational outreach projects. She currently represents the Jasper String Quartet, the Canellakis-Brown Duo, the Byrd Ensemble, the Boarte Piano Trio, and the Fullana-Vieaux Duo. Soloists on her roster include flutist Amir Hoshang Farsi, cellist Nicholas Canellakis, and pianist Michael Stephen Brown.

Prior to her arrival at Music@Menlo in 2005, she worked at the University of Washington in Seattle in a variety of departments, including the School of Art, Student Affairs, Educational Partnerships, and the School of Public Affairs.

Marianne’s volunteer experience includes board service with youth orchestras as well as community-based chamber music organizations. From 2013 to 2016, she served as a board member of Noe Valley Chamber Music, now Noe Music. In January 2020, Marianne was named a founding board member of Quinteto Latino, a San Francisco-based performing arts organization advocating to disrupt racial and economic disparities within the classical music field by championing past, present, and future contributions by Latinx composers and musicians.

Marianne received her undergraduate degree in viola performance from the Peabody Institute at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. She has performed nationally and internationally in festivals including the Tanglewood Institute, the Menuhin Festival and Academy (Gstaad, Switzerland), and the National Repertory Orchestra.