NavarroRiverMusic.com is the website of Marcia Sloane.

Marcia grew up in Honolulu, Hawaii, where she began playing cello at age nine. While a music major at Stanford University, Marcia left college to join Waikiki’s Don Ho Show orchestra, after which she studied north Indian classical singing at Sonoma State University and earned her degree in India Studies. 

Over the past 40 years Marcia has played with orchestras and chamber groups; collaborated with choreographers, visual artists, storytellers, filmmakers, and theatre companies; worked as a community college instructor of world music and music theory; and maintained a private cello studio. Her training as a Ta Ke Ti Na teacher with Austrian percussionist Reinhard Flatishler influences her work as a teacher, performer, and composer. She is also co-director of Navarro River String Camp for adult string players, a biannual musical retreat in northern California.

Marcia has produced several CDs of original music and Cello Drones for Tuning and Improvisation, a CD used by musicians throughout the world.

Cello Drones for Tuning and Improvisation: resonant acoustic cello drones on all 12 chromatic pitches (each 6-minutes long); a musician’s practice partner for tuning and improvisation.

Cello Drones for Meditation and Relaxation: Acoustic cello drones on each pitch of the C Major scale allow your mind to settle into a state ideal for meditation, creative activity, and relaxation.

Skyward: classical, new age, world fusion cello: songs and instrumental works for cello with vocals, guitar, accordion, clarinet, piano, and percussion.

So not Jazz: songs for guitar, cello, piano, and voice; vocals and instrumentals, entrancing improvisations.

When Light is Your Garden: danceable love songs with a Latin tinge featuring cello and vocals with guitar, piano, and percussion, composed and arranged by Marcia Sloane and Todd Walton.

I Remember You: cello interludes surround five funny and poignant short stories written and read by Todd Walton.