Oliviana Marie is a composer, conductor, lyricist, librettist, trumpeter, pianist, singer, dancer, actress, and 2025 Summa Cum Laude graduate of USC’s Thornton School of Music. In 2024, Oliviana became the youngest winner of The ASCAP Foundation Sammy Cahn Award (past winners include John Mayer and Cinco Paul) and in 2023, she was the only composer to ever win two awards in the same year for ASMAC’s Composer Competition (The Ray Charles Vocal Arranging Award and The Bill Conti Big Band Arranging Award). She is a four-time Marvin Hamlisch International Music Award nominee in jazz, contemporary pop, classical composition, and winning in 2023 for best R&B song, presented by Clive Davis.

Oliviana’s written four award-winning musicals! Her first musical, THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE was mentored by the legendary Stephen Schwartz (Wicked) and presented at The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts. Her most recent musical, “CORONA’S CABARET: An Act of Destruction,” where Oliviana played the Coronavirus as a nightclub singer, was the winner of PLAYBILL’S Virtual Theatre Festival and the Foundation for New American Musicals’ SHOWSEARCH Competition.

An accomplished conductor, Oliviana assisted Maestro Gustavo Dudamel and director Alberto Arvelo on the LA Phil/Deaf West production of Beethoven’s FIDELIO, as well as the San Diego Symphony’s production of Antonio Estévez’s CANTATA CRIOLLA under the baton of Rafael Payare, and in 2024 she made her international conducting debut, with “MEMENTO MORI,” composed for and premiered by the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Costa Rica. She’s scored dozens of short films including Are We Dead Yet? (AFI), Sundown (USC) and Spin the Bottle (LA Film School).

In 2025, Oliviana was selected to participate in the Johnny Mercer Foundation’s Songwriters Project in Nashville, Tennessee and the Johnny Mercer Foundation’s Songwriters Intensive in Sidney, Maine. Her song “Azalea Woods” written to honor H.F. du Pont’s beautiful gardens at the Winterthur Museum in Delaware won 1st place in the Popular Music Category, as well as the Audience Favorite Award at the Inaugural Ruth Wales du Pont Collegiate Composition Competition. Most recently, she has been commissioned by White Snake Projects, an activist opera company in Boston; Camarada Ensemble in San Diego; Florida’s Symphony of the Americas and the Washington D.C. based American Pops Orchestra.