Wayne Marshall (classical musician)

Wayne Marshall ( born January 13, 1961 in Oldham, near Manchester ) is an English pianist, organist and conductor.

After visiting the Chetham 's School in Manchester, he began organ studies at the Manchester Cathedral. He continued his studies at the Royal College of Music with Nicholas Danby ( organ) and Angus Morrison (piano ) and at the Music Academy in Vienna. His examinations he passed with distinction. Marshall has performed as an organist, among others, in Notre Dame de Paris, at the Royal Festival Hall and Westminster Abbey. He is organist in residence at the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester.

As a pianist he has performed together next solo concerts with Kim Criswell, Tasmin Little, Natalie Clein, Ole Edvard Antonsen and Willard White. He conducted the Rotterdam Philharmonic, the Vienna Philharmonic, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Dresden Philharmonic, Staatskapelle Halle, and his orchestration of Bordeaux and Lyon. On his programs often are works by George Gershwin, Duke Ellington and Leonard Bernstein. In the WDR Radio Orchestra Cologne, he is 2014-2015 new principal conductor at the beginning of the season.

From him the Magnificat and Nunc dimittis compositions originate. Marshall received the Honorary Doctorate Awards as Bournemouth University and was Artist of the Year by the BBC (1998).

Audio

• Works for Piano Orchestra
• Piano Concertos of the 1920s
• Marshall Organ Improvisations