Join us for a senior recital featuring the incredible pianist and Columbia College senior, Marco Jimenez, on May 3rd at 12 PM at the Italian Academy.
Marco A. Jimenez is a composer, pianist. organist, and violinist. He is currently in his fourth year as a cross-enrolled student at both Columbia University and Juilliard. At Columbia, he is a John Jay Scholar majoring in philosophy, while at Juilliard, he studies composition under John Corigliano and organ under Paul Jacobs. Marco is also a participant in the Music Performance Program at Columbia, where he plays piano for both the Performance Seminar and the Piano Trio in one of the Chamber Ensembles. Additionally, he takes private piano lessons with Reiko Uchida.
Marco will pursue a M.M. (’27) at the Juilliard School under the tutelage of Paul Jacobs. He has been invited to perform at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine and The Metropolitan Museum of Art and served as the organist and Choirmaster at Immanuel Lutheran Church. Marco’s compositions have been premiered by such institutions as The Juilliard School, the Brazilian National Symphony, and the Hypercube Ensemble, with works published by TrevCo Music Publishing. He has received such awards as the Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Boulanger Prize for "Best Musical Language" at the Conservatoire Américain de Fontainebleau, and multiple ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Awards. Marco composed the musical score for an animated series by NOAA, which has been nominated as a finalist for two categories of the 17th Annual Shorty Awards - "Government & Politics" and "Animation".
Marco was awarded the Charles Ives Scholarship for Music from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2022. That same year, he received an Honorable Mention for composition in the National YoungArts Competition. In 2021, he earned an Honorable Mention in organ and a Merit Honors award in piano at the National YoungArts Competition. In 2020, he received an Honorable Mention in three disciplines—piano, organ, and composition—at the National YoungArts Competition.
Marco made his debut as a pianist at age fourteen, performing as the winner of the Edward and Ida Wilkof Young Artists competition with the Sarasota Orchestra. He played the 1st movement of Mozart’s Concerto No. 24. Two years later, he was a repeat winner, performing the 1st movement of Tchaikovsky’s Concerto No. 1. In 2019, Marco won the Justine LeBaron Young Artists Competition and performed the 1st movement of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major with the Florida Orchestra. That same year, he also won the National Federation of Music Clubs’ Stillman-Kelley Award for Piano. In 2021, he won first place in the Lana M. Bailey Piano Concerto Competition for the National Federation of Music Clubs. In 2025, Marco was invited to provide opening music for the World Monuments Fund's 2025 Paul Mellon Lecture on the Restoration of Notre-Dame, where he offered a program of Ravel, Faure, and others on piano.
Marco has attended the Fontainebleau Schools of Music and Fine Arts, the European American Musical Alliance’s Summer Music Institute, the Mostly Modern Festival, the Interlochen Center for the Arts, Boston University’s Tanglewood Institute, the Southeastern Piano Festival, and the Rebecca Penneys Piano Festival.
