Wayne Marshall (classical musician)
{{short description|British pianist, organist, and conductor (born 1961)}}
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| name = Wayne Marshall
| honorific_suffix = OBE
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| alt = Portrait of Wayne Marshall in 2016
| caption = Wayne Marshall in 2014
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| birth_place = Oldham, Lancashire
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| occupation = {{ubl | Pianist | Organist | Conductor }}
| website = [http://www.waynemarshall.com/ waynemarshall.com]
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Wayne Ea Marshall {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|OBE}} (born 13 January 1961) is a British pianist, organist, and conductor.
Biography
Marshall was born in Oldham, Lancashire, to parents originally from Barbados. 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.{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/friday_review/story/0,3605,478708,00.html | title=No wrong notes | work=The Guardian | author=Christopher Wood | date=2001-04-27 | accessdate=2020-11-06}} He was a student at Chetham's School of Music, Manchester, from 1971 to 1979. Marshall continued his music studies at the Royal College of Music, 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 in Vienna from 1983-1984.
As an organist, Marshall has served as organist and associate artist of the Bridgewater Hall, 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's organ concerto A Scotch Bestiary with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra under Esa-Pekka Salonen. Marshall has appeared as an organist at the BBC Proms.{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2008/aug/05/proms.classicalmusicandopera | title=Wayne Marshall; BBCSSO/Runnicles | work=The Guardian | author=Tim Ashley | date=2008-08-04 | accessdate=2020-11-06}}{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/aug/02/proms-20-21-review | title=Proms 20 and 21: Wayne Marshall; OAE/Rattle | work=The Guardian | author=Tim Ashley | date=2010-08-02 | accessdate=2020-11-06}}
File:Spilberk_2006_Marshall_crop.jpg at Špilberk Festival, Brno, in 2006.]]
As a conductor, Marshall has held such posts as principal guest conductor of the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, beginning in 2007. Marshall was chief conductor of the WDR Funkhausorchester from 2014{{cite press release | url=https://www.askonasholt.com/wayne-marshall-appointed-chief-conductor-of-wdr-rundfunkorchester-from-201415/ | title=Wayne Marshall appointed Chief Conductor of WDR Rundfunkorchester from 2014/15 | publisher=Askonas Holt | date=14 June 2013 | accessdate=2020-11-06}} to 2020.{{cite news | url=https://www1.wdr.de/mediathek/audio/wdr3/wdr3-tonart/audio-der-englische-allroundmusiker-verlaesst-das-wdr-funkhausorchester-100.html | title=Der englische Allroundmusiker verlässt das WDR Funkhausorchester | work=WDR 3 TonArt | date=2020-06-29 | accessdate=2020-11-06}}
Marshall conducted the first concert of the Chineke! Orchestra, Europe's first professional black and ethnic minority orchestra, at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London in September 2015.{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/sep/14/chineke-orchestra-marshall-review-chi-chi-nwanoku | title=Chineke! Orchestra/Marshall review – the beginning of something culturally inspiring | work=The Guardian | author=George Hall | date=2015-09-14 | accessdate=2020-11-06}} His work with contemporary music has included conducting the European premiere of John Harbison's opera The Great Gatsby at the Semperoper, Dresden on 6 December 2015.
Honours and awards
In 2004, Marshall received an Honorary Doctorate from Bournemouth University. He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Music 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 (OBE) in the 2021 New Year Honours for services to music.{{London Gazette|issue=63218|supp=y|page=N12|date=31 December 2020}}
Selected discography
- Show Boat (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
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External links
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- [http://www.waynemarshall.com/ Official website of Wayne Marshall]
- [http://www.allmusic.com/artist/wayne-marshall-mn0002181070 Wayne Marshall page at AllMusic]
- [http://www.agenciacamera.com/en/artist/wayne-marshall Agencia Camera agency page on Wayne Marshall]
- [http://africlassical.blogspot.co.uk/2010/03/wayne-marshall-black-british-organist.html William J. Zick, 'Wayne Marshall, Black British Organist, Has 21 CDS & Is Conductor of Verdi Orchestra in Milan'. Africlassical Blog, 31 March 2010]
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