News!
2010 Jubilation Foundation Fellowship awarded to
John Marshall
See John's
Television Appearance on "Better Connecticut" Tuesday Feb.16 on WTNH TV
Connecticut Channel 3
NEW AND NOTEWORTHY
 New CDs for 2010! : New recordings available soon from this website : John's new solo CD, as well as collaborations with guitarist composer Dave Stovall, winds player Paul Butler and composer Robert Weinstein.
New Alfred Books by John Marshall: 2010 will see the release of two new publications by John: Drum Atlas: Africa, and Drum Atlas : The Middle East. Look for them world wide later in the year.
FEB 19/20, 2010
John has composed a new extended piece for dance and composition to be performed by the Pilobolus Dance Company and the IDP Drum Ensemble. Ticket information and details available here.
JAN 1, 2010
John is honored to be the recipient of a prestigious Jubilation Foundation Fellowship for 2010. He is one of five chosen nation wide. Click here for details.
JAN 1, 2010
John now proudly endorses Precision drums. He is currently working with their engineers in the developing a line of Signature Series Frame Drums. For more information about this fantastic company, click here for details.
ONGOING ASAP/SALISBURY WORLD PERCUSSION CLASSES:
Click here to email for details.
MARCH 21 '09
LONG DANCE /PERCUSSION WITH RUSS COOPER OF NORWALK SYMPHONY AT PROMISEK RETREAT CENTER.
MARCH 28 '09
KRIPALU YOGA CENTER, LENOX MASS. WITH SNATAM KAUR, GURU GANESHA SINGH, AND MANISH VAYAS.
APRIL 24 '09
NO BOUNDARIES PBS DOCUMENTARY AIRS NATIONALLY- JOHN MARSHALL PIANO/PERCUSSION.
APRIL 25 '09
WORKSHOP WITH JOHN GRAHAM'S LAKE BADDOCK GUITAR ENSEMBLES, NEW YORK, NEW YORK.
MAY 01 '09
KIRTAN, BURLINGTON VT- EMAIL FOR DETAILS.
MAY 09 '09
JOHN MARSHALL WITH WATERBURY SYMPHONY AND FORTUNE PROJECT/ PHILLIP STERLING, PALACE THEATRE, WATERBURY CT.
MAY 16 '09
RECORDING DATES WITH DAVE STOVALL.
Past Events:
JULY-AUG, 08
JOHN OFFERS INSTRUCTION IN WEST AFRICAN DRUMMING SALISBURY CT. WED NIGHTS 7-8 P.M. ST JOHN'S CHURCH MAIN ST.
JULY 4-6, 08
JOHN OFFERS WORKSHOP AND CONCERT WITH ROBERT GASS WITH STEVE GORN AT OMEGA INSTITUTE, RHINEBECK NY.
JULY 13, 08
JOHN PLAYS AT LEGENDARY KENNY'S CASTAWAY IN NYC'S GREENWICH VILLAGE ; FILMED AND BROADCAST FOR MTV AND DIGITAL CAFÉ
JULY 26, O8
JOHN OFFERS WORKSHOP AT CONNECTICUT 'S WISDOM HOUSE LABYRINTH VIDEOTAPED FOR YOUTUBE
AUG 4-15, 08
ASAP SUMMER ARTS PROGRAM HAND PERCUSSION WORKSHOPS WASHINGTON MONTESSORI WASHINGTON CT
AUG.10, 08
LIVE AT SHARON AUDOBON, SHARON CT WITH LEESA SKLOVER AND MARK MILLER
AUG. 28, O8
LIVE AT THE MONKEY WITH COMPOSER GUITARIST DAVE STOVALL NYC 26 TH ST BETWEEN 6 TH AND B'WAY 212-481-1601 (RESERVATIONS)
OCT 3, 08
COLLABORATIVE CONCERT WITH PAUL WINTER AND ASAP DRUMMERS SHEPAUG HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIM WASHINGTON CT
FEB. 09
TOUR DATES TBA WITH FRANCESCA GAGNON CIRCQUE DU SOLEIL .
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John Marshall performs on concert stages, radio, television, and film both nationally and internationally. He includes the drumming traditions of the Middle East, North and South India, Egypt, West Africa, the Caribbean, and Central Asia in his repertoire. Performing on frame drums, tabla, doumbek, tombak, djembe, congas, riq, pandiero, mbira, conventional Western percussion, and all manner of hand-held percussion, John Marshall's music has been featured on National Public Radio's All Things Considered, Echoes, Hearts Of Space, PBS Television and the British Broadcasting Company (BBC). |
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| He has performed and recorded with such artists as The Paul Winter Consort, Michael Brecker, Glen Velez, Rhonda Larson, Danny Gottlieb, Harvie Swartz, Robert Gass, Steve Gorn, Omar Faruk Tekbilek, Snatam Kaur, Paco Pena, Krishna Das, David Darling, Eugene Freison, Benjamin Verdery, Coleman Barks, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, George Benson and Marc Anthony. |
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| Performances include Centro y Exposiciones in the Dominican Republic, The New Jersey Chamber Music Society, Taos Chamber Music Group, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, Tidewater Guitar Festival, Sacred Music Festival, Paradise Island, Bahamas, Virginia Arts Festival, Honolulu Performing Arts Series, Maui Concert Series, Yale Guitar Extravaganza, Music Mountain, Paul Halley's Soulstice Celebration, Chorus Angelicus, New Haven Festival of Arts and Ideas, Hartford Jazz Festival, Town Hall, Merkin Concert Hall, Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, The Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, and the United Nations. |
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With numerous CD credits to his name, John is recorded on DMP, Ellipsis Arts, Sony, Jazzheads, Spring Hill, Windham Hill and Virgin record labels. The recipient of several awards, he has been recognized for excellence in percussion music education by the Pro-Mark Drum Corporation. In 2009, John was awarded national fellowship by the Jubilation Foundation and Tides Corporation. In 2004 he was commissioned to compose original music for the ASAP Community dance project in collaboration with Pilobolus Dance Theatre. Active in scoring original music for films and documentaries, John Marshall's music has appeared in award winning films released both nationally and internationally. Marshall's instructional books and CDs, Hand Drums for Beginners, (5 Star Rating: Percussion.com ), and World Beat Encyclopedia, are available everywhere through Alfred Publications.
Sponsored by the Cooperman Drum Company , Precision Drum Company and Claydrum Udus , John tours the country with his adult seminar and Workshop Series , performs through Young Audiences of America, Armstrong Chamber Enrichment Series, ASAP After School Arts Program, Arts Magnet School Systems, Hartford Intercity Arts Outreach, and during the summer of 2004, was Percussion Instructor in Residence at the Punahou School in Hawaii. He performs with the classical/jazz/world ensemble Ufonia, composes for and performs with numerous percussion groups, including Framework, and WoMaDe, and is much sought after in the freelance arena. He has released his own CDs featuring his original compositions, and is at work on creating online hand percussion instruction for Warner Brothers/Alfred. Currently, John enjoys performing with the experimental improvisational trio Bridges and Poems, which includes composer/guitarist Robert Weinstein and woodwind player Paul Butler. Additionally, he is studying traditional composition/performance technique of North Indian Tabla with Subhankar Banerjee and Narendra Budhakar. John holds degrees from New York University in religious literature and did his graduate work at Weslyan University in Ethnomusicology where his principal teachers were Royal Hartigan and Abraham Adzenyah. John further studied at the Mannes School in New York, and the Manhattan School of Music where he was taught by Paul Price, Norman Grossman, Glen Velez and Elvin Jones.
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| The father of three, grandfather of one, John resides in Northern Connecticut with his wife, artist Cecilia Marshall. |
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