Matthew Marshall

Associate Professor

MMus(dist), PGRNCM, PGDipMusTchg

Matthew Marshall is one of New Zealand’s leading classical guitarists. He was a prize-winner in the 1988 Young Musician of the Year Competition and a recipient of an AGC Young Achievers Award and the UDC/Rotary Young Musicians Prize in 1989. He also won prizes in the Royal Overseas League Music Competition in London in 1990, Australia/New Zealand Foundation Awards in 1991 & 1995 and a NZ-France Friendship Award in 2006.

Matthew Marshall has performed throughout Europe, Asia, America, Pacific Islands, and Australasia, from Iceland to Easter Island! He has also given over 80 concerto performances in New Zealand, Mexico, Russia and Germany including appearances with the Berlin Chamber Orchestra, the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, the Guanajuato & Michoacan Symphony Orchestras in Mexico and the Kemerovo Philharmonic in Russia. He is also an advocate for contemporary New Zealand music, with more than 40 works written for or premiered by him including six concertos and numerous solo and chamber works. He has given the premiere performances of guitar concertos by New Zealand composers David Farquhar, Anthony Ritchie, Philip Norman, John Ritchie, Patrick Shepherd and Sir William Southgate.

As a recording artist Matthew Marshall has released five CDs and appears on another four in collaboration with other New Zealand and international artists including the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Tower Voices New Zealand and others. He has also been recording for Radio New Zealand since 1983 and has recorded for radio and television in Australia, USA, Germany, England and Mexico.

From 1996 to 2006 Matthew Marshall was Head of the Conservatorium of Music at Massey University and in 2006 was appointed Professor and Director of Music at Dartington College of Arts (UK) and Visiting Professor at the University of Plymouth (UK).

Sought after as a teacher, Matthew Marshall has given masterclasses at the Conservatorio Nacional de Mexico, the Mannes College of Music New York, the Gnessin Academy of Music Moscow, the Queensland Conservatorium Brisbane, the Canberra School of Music, the Conservatorio Nacional de Mexico, the Victorian College of the Arts Melbourne, the Dartington International Summer School UK, and many others.

Matthew Marshall was Artistic Director of the New Zealand International Guitar Festival in 1992, 1996 and 2005. Since 1991 he has also been responsible for appearances by some of the world’s leading guitarists including Benjamin Verdery, John Mills, Stepan Rak, David Leisner, Timothy Kain, Guitar Trek, Groningen Guitar Duo, Marc Teicholtz, Karin Schaupp, Slava Grigoryan, Anthony Field, Marco Schmidt, David Jacques, Peter Constant, Daniel McKay, John Couch.

Matthew Marshall studied in New Zealand and England with William Bower, John Mills and Gordon Crosskey and in New York with David Leisner.

“...a guitarist of superb technical accomplishment and a musician of perception and style. He is far and away New Zealand's finest classical guitarist.”
- Dominion Post

“Marshall delivered each piece with considerable musical refinement.”
- Musical Opinion (UK)
 
“...performs with brilliance and an innate artistic gift.”
- La Voz (Mexico)

“The variety of tones, voices and moods that Marshall drew from his guitar was simply captivating.”
- Christchurch Press


Contact details
Room: 1D17 Mount Cook Campus
Phone: +64-4-801-5799 extn. 62407
Email: matthew.marshall@nzsm.ac.nz
www.matthewmarshall.net.nz

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