Eldred
Marshall began his piano studies at six, and began playing in public
at seven.
His prodigious and inquisitive
mind allowed him to master large swaths of the piano repertoire quickly as well as consistently win top prizes at the competitions
he entered as a child. By 16, he debuted with orchestra, playing Brahms’s Second Piano Concerto. Before entering into Yale University,
where he graduated with honors, he had already played all over the United States.
The critically acclaimed
artist has performed internationally: Spain, Italy, the Republic of San Marino, Belgium and the Ukraine. He has performed
the entire cycle of 32 Piano Sonatas of Beethoven in public, from memory, as a concentrated series, twice: once in Portland
in 2007 and in San Francisco in 2008. He followed that project with a full West
Coast (US) tour of Bach’s Goldberg Variations in 2008 and 2009.
In the 2009-2010 Season, Marshall, who studied conducting as a child, added orchestral conducting and performances
to his active performing itinerary. He made his orchestral conducting debut in
two Mozart piano concerti with members of the Southern Methodist University Meadows Symphony Orchestra. Recently, he made a highly acclaimed debut as pianist and conductor with the Ukrainian State Symphony Orchestra,
which has invited him to serve as its Principal Guest Conductor.
Marshall is dedicated to
performing new music. He has premiered several scores by Italian composer Elia Alessandro Calderan (b. 1984), who has
in turn dedicated his latest piano piece, Lieder Ohne Worte (2008),
to him. Also, he has taken to the music of Mario Godoy (b. 1988). Marshall commissioned Godoy to compose the tone
poem Nightfall…Fantasia
for Solo Piano (2008), which he premiered at the University of Redlands in November 2008. In 2010, he will premiere two works by Sacramento-based composer Tristan Gardner.
In addition to solo work,
Marshall is an active chamber musician. He has collaborated with dozens of artists in the standard duo and trio literature,
and has performed piano quartets and quintets.
In January 2008, Marshall
released his first CD, Eldred
Marshall: Live and Uncut in Recital. In August 2008, he completed work on his second CD, The Brahms Recital. Both discs are for sale through his
website, www.eldredmarshall.net.
Currently, Marshall is working towards
his MM in Piano Performance at the Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University on a full merit scholarship
as a student of Dr. Carol Leone. He also studies organ at Southern Methodist University with Dr. Larry Palmer and is
the organist of Dallas New Life Seventh Day Adventist Church and Fellowship United Methodist Church of Trophy Club. Among the artists and teachers he has worked with are Elsie Ordoņo, Brigitta Steidl, Elizabeth Parisot,
Daniel Pollack, and fortepianist John Khouri. Among the conductors with whom
Marshall has collaborated are Carlo Ponti, Jr. and K.C. Manji.
