MARSHALL McGuire, acclaimed as one of the world's leading harpists in contemporary and baroque repertoire, will be the honoured guest at two events for this month's Manning Winter Festival.
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Marshall will perform in the premiere of composer Andrew Chubb's new composition, "Intro and Dance", for oboe, harp and cello, at the Visual and Performing Arts Awards presentation at the Manning Regional Art Gallery on June 20.
This work was specially commissioned by Manning Winter Festival Inc as a celebration of artistic endeavour and community creativity across the Manning Valley.
It will be performed in a program which recognises outstanding talent in the Manning.
On that evening this creative endeavour will be highlighted by the announcement of the 2014 MWF Visual Arts, Performing Arts and Special Arts Awards recipients.
The event, which starts at 6pm on Friday June 20, promises to be an exciting one, showcasing much artistic talent.
Tickets, adults $20 and students $15, are available from Movies Games and More, phone 6552 5699.
The following Sunday, June 22, Marshall will also perform with Myriad Ensemble for the Manning Winter Festival's concert 'Music over the Manning'.
This concert, at 2.30pm at St John's Anglican Church, will feature British composer, John Rutter's work 'Requiem' along with other beautiful music.
Marshall studied at the Victorian College of the Arts, the Paris Conservatoire and the Royal College of Music, London.
His London debut recital was presented at the Purcell Room for the Park Lane Group.
He has commissioned and premiered more than 100 new works for harp, and has been a member of the Elision ensemble since 1988.
He has performed as soloist with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, English String Orchestra, Les Talens Lyriques, Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Melbourne Symphony and Australia Ensemble and has appeared at international festivals including Aldeburgh, Melbourne, Milan, Geneva, Brighton, Moscow, Vienna, Huddersfield, Huntington and Adelaide. In 2010, he conducted performances of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas for the Macau International Music Festival.
Marshall has received fellowships from the State Library of Victoria, the Churchill Trust, Peggy Glanville-Hicks Trust, and was artist-in-residence at Bundanon in 2003.
He has released seven CDs and received three ARIA Award nominations, and in 1997 received the Sounds Australian Award for the Most Distinguished Contribution to the Presentation of New Music.
Marshall is founding President of the New Music Network, a member of the Australian Youth Orchestra Artistic Advisory Committee, a trustee of the Hephzibah Tintner Trust and the Peggy Glanville-Hicks Composers House, and was head of artistic planning with the West Australian Symphony Orchestra from 2006-2011.
Performances in 2014 include Adelaide Festival with Elision, Mozart's Concerto with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra and a season of performances with Ludovico's Band as the Melbourne Recital Centre.
Marshall is currently co-artistic director of Ludovico's Band and Music Programmer at Arts Centre Melbourne.
As testament to his musical proficiency and his enormous contribution to the Australian music community, he and Genevieve Lacey, outstanding Australian recorder virtuoso, have been invited to and will be playing for the 64th Lindau Nobel Laureates Conference in Lindau Germany on June 30 this year.
Marshall's continuing program for 2014 also sees him performing at the 12th World Harp Congress in Sydney on July 24, in a program of all-Australian music, as well as hosting a panel discussion about composing for harp.
Marshall is playing the Mozart - Concerto for flute and harp with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra and flute player Melissa Farrow in Sydney and Melbourne from September 7 to 14.
Future concerts with Marshall's baroque group Ludovico's Band, at the Melbourne Recital Centre are in August and September.
In October, Marshall is co-curating, with Richard Tognetti, the Haydn For Everyone chamber music series at the Melbourne Festival.