Dr Wayne Marshall FRCM FRCO

Dr Wayne Marshall FRCM FRCO

Wayne Marshall was born in Oldham, Lancashire, to Barbadian parents, on January 13,1961. He played the piano by ear at three, and began lessons at seven. He studied organ and piano at 11 at Chetham’s School of Music in Manchester.  Later studies were at the Royal College of Music in London and at Vienna’s Hochschule fur Musik. While much of his time has been devoted to Broadway and jazz music, Marshall began his career as a church musician, serving as organ scholar first at Manchester Cathedral, then at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor. Marshall quickly developed an international reputation as an organ soloist and recitalist. He also began appearing regularly as a pianist in both roles and as accompanist. Among Marshall’s earliest recordings are the 1994 Saint-Saens Organ Symphony with Mariss Jansons on EMI, and the 1995 album Masters of English Church Music on Collegium, containing organ works by Byrd, Stanford, and Howells. Marshall had also begun developing his career as a conductor by this time, and over the years would lead such orchestras  as the Rotterdam Philharmonic, Vienna Symphony and BBC Philharmonic. His choice of repertory with  these ensembles tended to favour selections from American musicals like Wonderful Town, West Side Story, and Guys and Dolls. In 2004, Marshall premiered James MacMillan’s Organ Concerto, subtitled “A Scotch Bestiary,” and recorded it for the Chandos label in 2006. He also received same year an Honorary Doctorate from Bournemouth University and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Music in 2010. He is the Chief Conductor of WDR Funkhausorchester Cologne, and Organist and Associate Artist of the Bridgewater Hall.

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