Marshall McGuire

harp

"... illuminated emotional extremes from elation to dark despair and gave lithe vitality to the celebratory opening scenes." 
Gillian Wills, The Australian

Acclaimed as one of the world’s leading harpists in contemporary and baroque repertoire, Marshall McGuire studied at the Victorian College of the Arts, the Royal College of Music, London, and in Paris. His London debut recital was presented at the Purcell Room for the Park Lane Group. He has commissioned and premiered more than 100 new works for harp and has been a member of the ELISION ensemble since 1988. 

He has performed as soloist with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, English String Orchestra, Les Talens Lyriques, Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Melbourne Symphony and the Australia Ensemble and has appeared at international festivals including Aldeburgh, Melbourne, Milan, Geneva, Brighton, Moscow, Vienna, Huddersfield, Huntington and Adelaide. In 2010, he conducted performances of Purcell’s Dido & Aeneas for the Macau International Music Festival.

Marshall has received fellowships from the State Library of Victoria, the Churchill Trust, Peggy Glanville-Hicks Trust, and was Artist-in-Residence at Bundanon in 2003. He has released eight CDs and received four ARIA Award nominations and, in 1997, received the Sounds Australian Award for the Most Distinguished Contribution to the Presentation of Australian Music. 

He was curator of Chamber Landscapes for the 2020 Adelaide Festival; in 2021/2022, his collaboration with Genevieve Lacey Bower won Best Classical Album at the ARIA Awards and Best Independent Classical Album at the 2022 AIR Awards.

Marshall is currently Director of Programming at the Melbourne Recital Centre and Chair of the Australian Music Centre.

Representation: World