MARIKA HUGHES

Marika Hughes is a native New Yorker; a cellist, singer, and songwriter; and has been a storyteller on the Moth Radio Hour. From a musical family, Marika’s grandfather was the great cellist Emanuel Feuermann and her parents owned a jazz club, Burgundy, in their NYC neighborhood. Marika has a double degree from Barnard College and the Juilliard School, graduating with BAs in political science and cello performance, respectively. She has worked with Whitney Houston, Lou Reed, Anthony Braxton, David Byrne, Adele, D’Angelo, Idina Menzel, Nels Cline, and Henry Threadgill, among others. Marika has self-released three albums: The Simplest Thing (2011), Afterlife Music Radio (2011) and New York Nostalgia (2016). She is the founder of Looking Glass Arts, an artist-led, artist residency retreat and recording studio in upstate New York, committed to prioritizing BIPOC artists and a sliding scale fee structure, democratizing access to the space, time, and natural beauty critical to artistic growth.