Wayne Marshall (Conductor)
Oldham, Lancashire, UK.

Internationally renowned organist, conductor and pianist.
Organist-in-Residence, Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall, BBC Music Magazine’s “Artist of the Year Award” (1998).

Highlights: Porgy & Bess (BBC Proms Gershwin centenary tribute, Washington National Opera, Rotterdam Philharmonic); West Side Story (Bregenz Festival); Firebrand of Florence (Central German Radio Symphony Orchestra); Guys & Dolls (Austrian Radio Symphony); appeared in the BBC Big Band Ellington celebration; conducted at the “Prom in the Park,” Sage, Gateshead; and Wonderful Town (Austrian Radio Symphony, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Santa Cecilia, Monte Carlo Philharmonic). Other musical activities include improvisation, jazz, radio and television presentations, and composition. In 2004, Wayne Marshall was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Bournemouth University in recognition of his longstanding relationship with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. He has recorded for several labels, including two acclaimed Gershwin discs with Aalborg Symphony and solo piano releases that include I Got Rhythm and the Gershwin Song Book (winner of the 1998 ECHO award) and his Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis were published in 2001 in the Faber New Choral Works series.