Marjorie Chauvel
Marjorie Chauvel, 98 at rest in Los Altos, April 25, 2021
Marjorie Ann Chauvel was born in Santa Barbara on October 30, 1922 to Allen and Mary Isabel Gibson.
She took up music and the harp at any early age. Playing the harp and teaching music became the love of her life. As a harp prodigy, Marjorie moved to New York at age sixteen to study under Carlos Salzedo, a French harpist, composer and conductor that made the harp into a virtuoso instrument. Marjorie then attended the Curtis Institute of Music, a private conservatory in Philadelphia. After Curtis, she moved back to New York where she performed at times with the New York Symphony and at Carnegie Hall.