Wayne Marshall

WAYNE MARSHALL’s relationship with music began at the age of three, when he had already familiarised himself with the piano; he only began to take formal lessons a few years later. He was a student at Chetham’s School of Music in Manchester from 1971 to 1979. He won a foundation scholarship to the Royal College of Music in London, which was combined with the post of Organ Scholar at St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, and he was a postgraduate student at the Hochschule für Musik in Vienna from 1983-84.
Wayne’s musical forays led him to experiment in multiple genres, including church music and jazz, but he quickly found his professional voice as an organ/piano recitalist. This was also the time in which Wayne began to find his footing as a conductor, a path that would see him working with some of the world’s most accomplished orchestras. He is thus a man with two gifts and one legacy.
He was the BBC Music Magazine’s Artist of the Year in 1998. In 2004, Wayne received an Honorary Doctorate from Bournemouth University, and in 2010 became a Fellow of the Royal College of Music.
2016 he received the prestigious Golden Jubilee Award in commemoration of his services to music.