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Pamela J. Marshall

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Pamela J. Marshall writes music for chamber ensembles, orchestra, and chorus, plus the occasional electronic piece. She also records ambient soundscapes filled with birds and frogs. She loves free improvisation and teaches improv workshops and classes. Her music is available online at Spindrift Music (spindrift.com). Her music is on recordings from Beauport Classical, Living Artist, ERMMEdia, Uncommon Strings, Plucked Strings, and Clique Track. Her new Nachursona CD series include Costa Rica birds and Everglades frogs and alligators. Some early pieces are at Subito Music (formerly Seesaw). In 2009 South Beach Chamber Ensemble commissioned and premiered a piano quintet “Quinteto sobre los Poemas de Carlos Pintado” in Miami and repeated it in Wisconsin at their summer festival. The music continues Pam’s strong connections with poetry in her recent work. She also has a growing series of poetry-inspired solos -- she aims to write a solo for all orchestral instruments. Two choral pieces “Weaving the World” and “The Future of Life” have texts that emphasize with great passion the need to protect the natural world, another theme that you’ll find throughout her work. Some of her projects are supported through the Spindrift Commissioning Guild, a community-based approach to building support for new music. Find out more at spindrift.com. Pam received degrees in composition from Eastman and Yale Schools of Music, where she also studied horn, conducting, and electronic music. Pam has been a fellow at the MacDowell Colony, and has received commissions, grants, or awards from the South Beach Chamber Ensemble, International Association of Women in Music, American Music Center Composer Assistance, Lexington & Concord Arts Councils, Beauport Chamber Players, The Master Singers of Lexington, Assabet Valley Mastersingers, Green Mountain Youth Symphony, Mass. Council for the Arts, the New Works/New Composers series at the Composer's Forum, NEWCOMP, DanceArt, mandolinist Neil Gladd, American Women Composers, the Axiom Duo, and Trio Arundel. She was a member of Just In Time Composers and Players, a group of composers that presents concerts in and around Boston, Massachusetts until 2005. She lives in Lexington, Massachusetts and plays French horn in local orchestras. She has worked at Kurzweil Music Systems, writing software and developing sounds, and until recently wrote technical documentation for computer software.


Women Composers Spotlight: Flutes with Poetry Flute solos, duos, sound collages, poetry by a variety of currently working or late 20th century composers. Pamela Marshall, Hilary Tann, Ursula Mamlok, Terry Winter Owens, Alex Shapiro, Shulamit Ran, Sabrina Peña Young, Pamela Z.	4/9/2010 08:00 PM Democracy Center 45 Mt. Auburn St. Cambridge MA 02138 us	Phone:781-862-0884 Email:info@spindrift.com Web:www.spindrift.com
Piano Quintets by Farrenc & Marshall New England premiere of Quinteto sobre los Poemas de Carlos Pintado by Pamela Marshall (2009). Paired with the brilliant, French Romantic-period Piano Quintet No. 2 by Louise Farrenc (1840).	3/12/2010 08:00 PM Follen Community Church 755 Mass Ave. Lexington MA 02420 us	Phone:781-862-0884 Email:info@spindrift.com Web:www.spindrift.com
World of Music Series: Chamber Music for Piano and Strings Excerpts of Quinteto Sobre Los Poemas de Carlos Pintado by Pamela Marshall, excerpts of Piano Quintet No.2 by 19th-century composer Louise Farrenc. Fantasy Pieces by Robert Schumann.	3/7/2010 07:30 PM MCC Concert Hall Middlesex Community College, Bedford Campus 591 Springs Road, North Academic Building Bedford MA 01730 us	Phone:781-280-3923 Email:peraltac@middlesex.mass.edu Web:www.spindrift.com
First Parish Summer Series Remember the Old Songs for voice & piano, Elusive Sleep for cello & piano, Body and Soul Vol.2 for soprano, flute, cello & piano	5/16/2008 12:00 PM First Parish Church Harrington Road Lexington MA 02420 us	Phone:781-862-0884 Email:pmarshall@spindrift.com Web:www.spindrift.com
Art-Poem-Music: Body and Soul The Art-Poem-Music project presents Body and Soul Vol. 2 for soprano and chamber ensemble: music by Pamela J. Marshall, poems by Elizabeth Kirschner, and art by Sirarpi Heghinian Walzer. Also on the concert, poetry-inspired solos for woodwinds by Pamela Marshall, Choir Boxes for chamber ensemble by guest composer Stephen Tramontozzi. Performed by members of the Concord Orchestra and friends.	2/29/2008 08:00 PM 51 Walden Center for the Performing Arts 51 Walden St. Concord MA 01742 us	Phone:781-862-0884 Email:info@spindrift.com Web:www.spindrift.com

Title	Ensemble Type	Composed	Duration	Media
The Future of Life	Chorus, with or without Solo Voices	2007	00:30:00
High Flight	Solo instrument, non-keyboard	2007	00:03:15
Beyond the Storm	Solo instrument, non-keyboard	2007	00:04:00
I Am the Wind	Solo instrument, non-keyboard	2007	00:04:00
Unabashed Promotion	Solo instrument, non-keyboard	2007	00:02:00
Summer Into Winter	Solo instrument, non-keyboard	2007	00:03:30
float into the quiet skies	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	2007	00:04:50
melt into the flux	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	2007	00:04:00
Sunrise on the Hills	Solo instrument, non-keyboard	2007	00:06:10
Body and Soul Volume 2	Voice, Solo or With Chamber or Jazz Ensemble	2007	00:15:00
Among Friends	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	2006	00:04:00
Body and Soul Volume 1	Voice, Solo or With Chamber or Jazz Ensemble	2006	00:00:00
Black Bear Dance	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	2006	00:04:10	Black Bear Dance
Enchanted	Orchestra	2006	00:12:15	Enchanted
Weaving the World	Chorus, with or without Solo Voices	2005	00:17:00
Windshine	Chorus, with or without Solo Voices	2005	00:03:00	Windshine
wild horn whose voice the woodland fills	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	2005	00:05:30	wild horn whose voice the woodland fills
Loosely Blue	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	2004	00:09:30	Loosely Blue
Elusive Sleep	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	2003	00:05:30	Elusive Sleep Elusive Sleep
Traditional Christmas	Orchestra	2003	00:08:00
Stomp	Keyboard	2002	00:04:00	Stomp
Truth Becoming	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	2002	00:12:10	Truth Becoming
Wordless Prayer	Keyboard	2001	00:03:00	Wordless Prayer
Wordless Prayer	Chorus, with or without Solo Voices	2001	00:03:00
Daydream	Keyboard	2000	00:03:00	Daydream Daydream
Suite	Keyboard	2000	00:10:00
Suite	Keyboard	2000	00:10:00
Imagine That Time Stops	Keyboard	2000	00:04:00	Imagine That Time Stops Imagine That Time Stops
Remember the Old Songs	Voice, Solo or With Chamber or Jazz Ensemble	2000	00:16:00	Remember the Old Songs
Resonances	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1999	00:10:00
Jazz-Inflected Etudes	Solo instrument, non-keyboard	1998	00:07:15	Jazz-Inflected Etudes
Through the Mist	Orchestra	1998	00:12:00
Waves and Fountains	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1997	00:08:00	Waves and Fountains
Pascal's Theorems	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1996	00:16:00	Pascal's Theorems
Isolde's Garden	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1995	00:02:30
Cornwall Hunt	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1995	00:04:30	Cornwall Hunt
Colored Leaves	Solo instrument, non-keyboard	1994	00:06:00	Colored Leaves
Hillslide	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1992	00:04:00	Hillslide
Through the Mist	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1992	00:12:00	Through the Mist
Three Appalachian Carols	Orchestra	1992	00:08:00	Three Appalachian Carols
Sky's Mirror	Voice, Solo or With Chamber or Jazz Ensemble	1991	00:10:00	Sky's Mirror
Star in the East	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1990	00:04:30	Star in the East
Soliloquy	Solo instrument, non-keyboard	1986	00:05:00	Soliloquy
Wanderer	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1985	00:07:00	Wanderer
Mandolin Night	Solo instrument, non-keyboard	1985	00:04:00
Chill wind in autumn, A : eight Chinese poems	Orchestra	1978	00:15:00
A chill wind in autumn	Orchestra	1978	00:18:00
A chill wind in autumn	Voice, Solo or With Chamber or Jazz Ensemble	1978	00:18:00
Arcanum	Solo instrument, non-keyboard	1977	00:09:00

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