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Wayne Ea Marshall (born 13 January 1961) is a British pianist, organist, and conductor.
As a conductor, Marshall has held such posts as principal guest conductor of the
Official website of Wayne Marshall
Wayne Marshall page at AllMusic
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Marshall, Wayne 1961 births Living people English classical organists Organ improvisers English classical pianists British male classical pianists English conductors (music) British male conductors (music) Black British classical musicians Alumni of the Royal College of Music People educated at Chetham's School of Music Musicians from the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham Officers of the Order of the British Empire Musicians from Oldham 21st-century British conductors (music) 21st-century British classical pianists 21st-century British organists English people of Barbadian descent British male classical organists 20th-century British conductors (music) 20th-century British classical pianists 20th-century British organists 20th-century British male musicians 21st-century British male musicians 20th-century British classical musicians 21st-century British classical musicians 20th-century Black British male musicians 21st-century Black British musicians Chief conductors of the WDR Funkhausorchester
Biography
Marshall was born inOldham
Oldham is a town in Greater Manchester, England. It lies amongst the Pennines on elevated ground between the rivers River Irk, Irk and River Medlock, Medlock, southeast of Rochdale, and northeast of Manchester. It is the administrative cent ...
, Lancashire, to parents originally from Barbados
Barbados, officially the Republic of Barbados, is an island country in the Atlantic Ocean. It is part of the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies and the easternmost island of the Caribbean region. It lies on the boundary of the South American ...
. He began piano studies at the age of three, and heard organ music regularly as a child through Sunday church services, which initiated his interest in the organ. He was a student at Chetham's School of Music
Chetham's School of Music () is a private co-educational boarding and day music school in Manchester, England. Chetham's educates pupils between the ages of 8 and 18, all of whom enter via musical auditions.
The music school was established i ...
, Manchester, from 1971 to 1979. Marshall continued his music studies at the Royal College of Music
The Royal College of Music (RCM) is a conservatoire established by royal charter in 1882, located in South Kensington, London, UK. It offers training from the undergraduate to the doctoral level in all aspects of Western Music including pe ...
, where he held a Foundation scholarship, and was in parallel an Organ Scholar at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle. He did post-graduate studies at the Hochschule für Musik
A music school is an educational institution specialized in the study, training, and research of music. Such an institution can also be known as a school of music, music academy, music faculty, college of music, music department (of a larger in ...
in Vienna from 1983-1984.
As an organist, Marshall has served as organist and associate artist of the Bridgewater Hall
The Bridgewater Hall is a concert venue in Manchester city centre, England. It cost around £42 million to build in the 1990s, and hosts over 250 performances a year. It is home to the 165-year-old Hallé Orchestra as well as to the Hallé ...
, Manchester. In 2004, he gave the inaugural organ recital in the new Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles. Also in Los Angeles, in October 2004, he premiered James MacMillan
Sir James Loy MacMillan, TOSD (born 16 July 1959) is a Scottish classical composer and conductor.
Early life
MacMillan was born at Kilwinning, in North Ayrshire, but lived in the East Ayrshire town of Cumnock until 1977. His father is Jam ...
's organ concerto '' A Scotch Bestiary'' with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
The Los Angeles Philharmonic (LA Phil) is an American orchestra based in Los Angeles, California. The orchestra holds a regular concert season from October until June at the Walt Disney Concert Hall and a summer season at the Hollywood Bowl from ...
under Esa-Pekka Salonen
Esa-Pekka Salonen (; born 30 June 1958) is a Finnish conducting, conductor and composer. He is the music director of the San Francisco Symphony and conductor laureate of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Philharmonia Orchestra in London and the Sw ...
. Marshall has appeared as an organist at the BBC Proms
The BBC Proms is an eight-week summer season of daily orchestral classical music concerts and other events held annually, predominantly in the Royal Albert Hall in central London. Robert Newman founded The Proms in 1895. Since 1927, the ...
.
As a conductor, Marshall has held such posts as principal guest conductor of the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi
Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi is an Italy, Italian symphony orchestra founded in 1993 thanks to the visionary foresight of Vladimir Delman, Marcello Abbado, and Luigi Corbani. The orchestra is based in Milan, at the Auditorium di Mi ...
, beginning in 2007. Marshall was chief conductor of the WDR Funkhausorchester
The is a German broadcast orchestra of the ' (WDR, West German Broadcasting) in Cologne. The orchestra gives its concerts in such venues as the Kölner Philharmonie and in the Funkhaus Wallrafplatz.
History
Groups from which the orchestra was ...
from 2014 to 2020.
Marshall conducted the first concert of the Chineke! Orchestra
Chineke! Orchestra () is a British orchestra, the first professional orchestra in Europe to be made up of majority Black & ethnically diverse musicians. The word Chineke derives from the Igbo language meaning "God". The orchestra was founded by m ...
, Europe's first professional black and ethnic minority orchestra, at the Queen Elizabeth Hall
The Queen Elizabeth Hall (QEH) is a music venue on the South Bank in London, England, that hosts European classical music, classical, jazz, and avant-garde music, talks and dance performances. It was opened in 1967, with a concert conducted by ...
in London in September 2015. His work with contemporary music has included conducting the European premiere of John Harbison
John Harris Harbison (born December 20, 1938) is an American composer and academic.
Life
John Harris Harbison was born on December 20, 1938, in Orange, New Jersey, to the historian Elmore Harris Harbison and Janet German Harbison. The Harbisons ...
's opera ''The Great Gatsby
''The Great Gatsby'' () is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with Jay Gatsby, a mysterious mi ...
'' at the Semperoper
The Semperoper () is the opera house of the Sächsische Staatsoper Dresden (Saxon State Opera) and the concert hall of the Staatskapelle Dresden (Saxon State Orchestra). It is also home to the Semperoper Ballett. The building is located on the Th ...
, Dresden
Dresden (; ; Upper Saxon German, Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; , ) is the capital city of the States of Germany, German state of Saxony and its second most populous city after Leipzig. It is the List of cities in Germany by population, 12th most p ...
on 6 December 2015.
Honours and awards
In 2004, Marshall received an Honorary Doctorate fromBournemouth University
Bournemouth University is a public university in Bournemouth, England, with its main campus situated in neighbouring Poole. The university was founded in 1992; however, the origins of its predecessor date back to the early 1900s.
The universi ...
. He became a Fellow
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of the Royal College of Music
The Royal College of Music (RCM) is a conservatoire established by royal charter in 1882, located in South Kensington, London, UK. It offers training from the undergraduate to the doctoral level in all aspects of Western Music including pe ...
in 2010. In October 2016, he was one of the recipients of the Barbados Golden Jubilee Award, for his services to music.
Marshall was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire
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(OBE) in the 2021 New Year Honours
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for services to music.
Selected discography
* ''Show Boat
''Show Boat'' is a musical theatre, musical with music by Jerome Kern and book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. It is based on Edna Ferber's best-selling 1926 Show Boat (novel), novel of the same name. The musical follows the lives of the per ...
'' (1988)
* ''The Virtuoso Organist'' (1990)
* ''Gershwin: Second Rhapsody; Piano Concerto in F; Porgy & Bess Symphonic Suite'' (1995)
* ''Gershwin: Rhapsody in blue; I got rhythm; An American in Paris'' (1995)
* ''Gershwin: Songbook & Improvisations'' (1997)
* ''I Got Rhythm: Wayne Marshall Plays Gershwin'' (1997)
* ''The Most Unforgettable Organ Classics Ever'' (1998)
* ''Symphonie'' (1998)
* ''Wayne Marshall Plays Bach, Liszt, Brahms'' (1998)
* ''Grainger: Works for Piano'' (1999)
* ''Swing It!'' (1999)
* ''Organ Improvisations'' (1999)
* ''Two of a Kind'' (2000)
* ''Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue; An American in Paris; Piano Concerto; Porgy & Bess'' (2002)
* ''Organ Works; Organ Transcriptions'' (2003)
* ''Popular Pieces for Trumpet and Organ'' (2005)
* ''Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue; Concerto in F; Porgy and Bess Suite'' (2005)
* ''Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue; Piano Concerto; An American in Paris; Porgy and Bess Suite'' (2005)
* ''Wedding Favourites'' (2005)
* ''James Macmillan: A Scotch Bestiary; Piano Concerto No. 2'' (2006)
* ''Blues'' (2006)
* ''George Gershwin: Concerto in F; Variations on 'I Got Rhythm'; Song Improvisations'' (2010)
* ''Rhapsody in Swing'' (2012)
* ''John Rutter: The Piano Collection'' (2020)
* Wayne Marshall: Passion Symphony (2020) Base2 Music
References
External links
Official website of Wayne Marshall
Wayne Marshall page at AllMusic
Agencia Camera agency page on Wayne Marshall
{{DEFAULTSORT:Marshall, Wayne 1961 births Living people English classical organists Organ improvisers English classical pianists British male classical pianists English conductors (music) British male conductors (music) Black British classical musicians Alumni of the Royal College of Music People educated at Chetham's School of Music Musicians from the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham Officers of the Order of the British Empire Musicians from Oldham 21st-century British conductors (music) 21st-century British classical pianists 21st-century British organists English people of Barbadian descent British male classical organists 20th-century British conductors (music) 20th-century British classical pianists 20th-century British organists 20th-century British male musicians 21st-century British male musicians 20th-century British classical musicians 21st-century British classical musicians 20th-century Black British male musicians 21st-century Black British musicians Chief conductors of the WDR Funkhausorchester