Wayne Marshall

In March 2018 Wayne Marshall returns to conduct the Orchestre de Paris in a performance of Leonard Bernstein's Mass.

The 2016 season included his debut at the Dresden Semperoper (Great Gatsby – John Harbison) Other guest engagements include those with Royal Scottish National, Taipei Symphony and Malaysian Philharmonic. Plans with the WDR include a tour in Spain, recording and performances of Wonderful Town. He recently appeared as soloist in the 2016 season at the Ten Pieces Prom.

In October 2016, he will be one of the recipients of the Golden Jubilee Award, for his services to music.

He collaborates regularly with Kim Criswell, the eminent American singing actress, in both recital and orchestral projects, appearing most recently at Cadogan Hall in the Spring of 2015. He has also worked with young musicians, as well as a number of youth and conservatoire orchestras, which include the Cherubini Orchestra founded by Riccardo Muti.

On 6 December 2015 Marshall conducted the European premiere of John Harbison's opera The Great Gatsby at Semperoper, Dresden.

Marshall was the first conductor to direct the highly acclaimed debut concert of the Chineke! Orchestra – Europe's first professional black and ethnic minority orchestra – at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London.

In March 2013 he conducted Jake Heggie's Dead Man Walking at the Montreal Opera House and returned in 2014 to conduct Gershwin's Porgy and Bess.

Marshall is a regular performer at the BBC Proms and appeared in the 2012 season as organist, and was co-presenter of the Barenboim Prom in summer 2014. Past appearances include three organ recitals; the UK première of A Scotch Bestiary; Last Night of the Proms in 1997 and the First Night in 2008.

In October 2004 he premiered James MacMillan's organ concerto A Scotch Bestiary with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra under Esa-Pekka Salonen.

In 2004, he gave the inaugural organ recital in the new Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles. Recent recitals include Notre-Dame de Paris, Luxembourg Philharmonie, Royal Albert Hall, and the National Grand Theatre, Beijing.

In 2004, Wayne Marshall received an Honorary Doctorate from Bournemouth University, and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Music in 2010.

In 1998 he conducted Porgy and Bess to celebrate the Gershwin centenary.

Wayne's musical forays led him to experiment in multiple genres, including jazz, Broadway, and Church music, but quickly found his professional voice as an organ and piano recitalist. His first recorded work goes as far back as 1990, and later, in 1994, with the Saint-Saëns Organ Symphony and Mariss Jansons on EMI.

Wayne Marshall (born 13 January 1961) is an English pianist, organist, and conductor. He is Chief Conductor of WDR Funkhausorchester in Cologne, Germany, and Organist and Associate Artist of the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester. He became Principal Guest Conductor of Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi in 2007, and is a celebrated interpreter of George Gershwin, Leonard Bernstein, and other 20th-century American composers.