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Born in Melbourne, Marshall McGuire studied at the Victorian College of the Arts, the Paris Conservatoire and the Royal College of Music, London. His London debut recital was presented at the Purcell Room for the Park Lane Group.
He has commissioned more than 30 new works for harp, and in recognition of this received the 1997 Sounds Australian Award for the Most Distinguished Contribution to the Presentation of Australian Music.
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, Vienna, Huddersfield, Huntington and Adelaide. From 1988-1992, Marshall was Principal Harpist with the Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra. He has been a member of the ELISION ensemble since 1988.
In 2003 he was appointed Artistic Director of The Seymour Group, and was awarded an inaugural Creative Fellowship from the State Library of Victoria to research the works of Peggy Glanville-Hicks. He received a Churchill Fellowship in 2004 to travel to San Francisco and New York to research baroque performance and contemporary music ensembles.
He made his conducting debut in performances of Mozart’s The Magic Flute with Pacific Opera in 1999. From 1999-2001 he was curator of the Twilight Chamber Music Series for Sydney Festival, and in 2003 he was artist-in-residence at the Bundanon Trust.
In 2008 Marshall performed for the Perth International Arts Festival; Musica Viva Australia; toured nationally with the Australian String Quartet; with the ELISION ensemble at Brisbane Festival and Melbourne International Arts Festival; as featured soloist at the World Shakuhachi Festival; and as soloist with The Queensland Orchestra.
Marshall is also founding President of the New Music Network, a member of the Australian Youth Orchestra Artistic Advisory Committee, and Music Director of the AYO's National Music Camp 2008. In December 2006, Marshall took up the position of Executive Manager, Artistic Planning with the West Australian Symphony Orchestra. He was a participant in the 2020 Summit held in April 2008 at Parliament House Canberra.