Eldred Marshall began his piano studies at six, and began playing in public at seven.  His teachers include Barbara Hall, Brigitta Steidl, Lawrence Goldman, Elizabeth Parisot, Daniel Pollack, and John Khouri.

Marshall began studying the piano at age 6, and the precocious young Eldred started performing publicly at age 7. 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 and the Republic of San Marino.  A landmark in his career was to become the first African-American/Black pianist to perform the entire cycle of 32 piano sonatas of Beethoven in public, from memory, as a concentrated series.  In the fall and winter of 2007, he performed the feat in Portland, OR.  In the winter and spring of 2008, he repeated the series in San Francisco. 

In the winter of 2009, Marshall will perform the complete piano music of Johannes Brahms, from memory, in San Francisco.

In addition to solo work, Marshall frequently performs chamber music.  Recent chamber music performances include Brahms’s Viola Sonata no. 2 in E-flat major, Piano Quartet no. 3 in c minor, and Schubert’s Trout Quintet.  Upcoming chamber music engagements include Brahms’s Piano Quintet, op. 34, Brahms’s Sonata for Two Pianos in f minor, op. 34b, and Dvorak’s Piano Quintet.

Currently, Marshall is touring the West Coast with Bach’s Goldberg Variations, BWV 988.  Performances include a lecture-recital in San Francisco, and concerts in Glendale (Los Angeles), San Francisco, San Diego, Seattle and Portland.