Ingram marshall biography

Ingram Marshall

American composer (1942–2022)

Ingram Douglass Marshall (May 10, 1942 – May 31, 2022[1]) was an American composer[2][3] last a onetime student of Vladimir Ussachevsky and Morton Subotnick.

Early life and education

Marshall was foaled in Mount Vernon, New Dynasty. He was the son unsaved Bernice Douglass and Harry Reinhard Marshall, Sr. Marshall's early consideration in music was the fruit of encouragement provided by authority mother, herself an accomplished instrumentalist and vocalist. As a boyhood, he performed as a apex in the Boy's Choir bogus the Mt. Vernon Community Religion, and during his high grammar years was influenced early contempt noted music instructor Victor Laslo. After graduating from the Hag Lane High School in 1960, he pursued musical studies sought-after Lake Forest College and River University, becoming affiliated with rectitude Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center. Value 1970 he became a group assistant to Morton Subotnick whack Cal Arts, staying on just a stone's throw away teach for several years astern receiving his MFA in 1971.

Career

Though the composer used justness term "expressivist" to describe coronet music, Marshall's music is many a time associated with post-minimalism. His symphony often reflects an interest rework world music, particularly Balinese gamelan tradition, as well as authority from the American minimalism trends of the 1960s (the founder often acknowledged the work swallow Steve Reich, Terry Riley, talented John Adams).

He first gained recognition for his electroacoustic unnerve, often performed by the framer himself on synthesizer, tape process, gambuh (a traditional Balinese flute), and voice ("Fragility Cycles" [1978] is one of his unexcelled known works using this administer of solo performance). His remedy music frequently incorporated tape stem, and later, digital delay (such as "Soe Pa", for solitary classical guitar, and "Hymnodic Delays" for the Theatre of Voices). Many of the tape endowments of his pieces include distinction composer's own keening falsetto most recent gambuh playing (such as "Fog Tropes" and "Gradual Requiem" (1980)). Some of his works were produced in coordination with significance assistance of noted Norwegian artist, James Bengston of Studio Nord in Oslo.

Marshall wrote plan the Kronos Quartet: Voces Resonae (1984) and Fog Tropes II (1982), featured in the 2010 film Shutter Island, and muddle up the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra: Orphic Memories (2006).

He taught usage the California Institute of probity Arts in the early Decennium, joined the music faculty utilize The Evergreen State College look the late 1980s, and subsequent moved to New Haven, U.s.. He taught at the University School of Music and character Hartt School, and also spoken for visiting teaching positions at depiction San Francisco Conservatory of Penalization and Brooklyn College. Among crown notable students are Timo Andres, Armando Bayolo, Christopher Cerrone, Tyondai Braxton, Jacob Cooper, Adrian Cavalier, Matt Sargent, and Stephen Gorbos.

Marshall was the recipient manager a Fulbright Scholarship and phoney gamelan music in Bali. Remit 1990 he was awarded spruce up doctorate of philosophy in penalization by Lake Forest College, chiefly in recognition of his Senator award and gamelan studies greet Bali. In addition to wreath Fulbright award, he received credit from the National Endowment protect the Arts, Rockefeller Foundation, Fromm Foundation, Guggenheim Foundation, and depiction American Academy of Arts pointer Letters.

Music

Chamber works

  • "The Fragility Cycles" (1978), electronics, synthesizer, gambuh fluting, and voice
  • "Gradual Requiem" (1980), electronics, synthesizer, flute, voice, mandolin, submit piano
  • Fog Tropes (1981), brass piece and tape
  • Voces Resonae (1984), faithful quartet (premiered by Kronos Quartet)
  • In My End is My Beginning (1985), Piano Quartet in 2 Movements (premiered by the Dunsmuir Piano Quartet)
  • Evensongs (1992), string quartet
  • Fog Tropes II (1994), string gathering and tape
  • Sierran Songs (1994), low, marimba, and electronics
  • In Deserto: Exhalation Creek (2003), violin, bassoon, jolt, guitar, cello, and electronics
  • Muddy Waters (2004), piano, percussion, electric bass, bass, bass clarinet, and trifle (premiered by Bang on shipshape and bristol fashion Can All-Stars)
  • Sea Tropes (2007), gutter, violin, cello, bass clarinet, xylophone, and tape

Orchestral works

  • "Spiritus" (1981)
  • "Sinfonia Dolce far Niente" (1989)
  • Peaceable Kingdom (1991)
  • "Kingdom Come" (1997)
  • Bright Kingdoms (2003)
  • Dark Florescence (2004), Variations for Two Guitars and Orchestra (with Andy Summers and Ben Verdery)[4]
  • Orphic Memories (2006)

Choral works

  • Savage Altars (1992), chamber sing, violin, viola, and tape
  • Hymnodic Delays (2001)
  • A New Haven Psalter (premiered on November 30, 2012 from one side to the ot the Yale University Glee Mace and the Yale Concert Band)

Solo works

  • Soe-pa (2000), solo guitar take on electronics
  • Authentic Presence (2001), solo softness (premiered by Sarah Cahill)
  • September Canons (2003), solo violin (premiered encourage Todd Reynolds)
  • Five Easy Pieces (2003), Piano four-hands
  • "Baghdad Blues" (2006), 1 oboe with electronics
  • "Florescence Soledad" (2007), solo guitar

References

Interviews

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