Ingram Marshall, composer

Born: May 10, 1942, in Mount Vernon, New York

Education: studied electronic music with Vladimir Ussachevsky at Columbia University and Morton Subotnick at California Institute of the Arts

Influences: minimalism, Jean Sibelius, Javanese gamelan, gambuh (traditional Balinese bamboo flute), electronic techniques using synthesizers, tape delay, feedback

Academia: Guest Teacher in Composition at the Hartt School of Music; visiting Professor at Yale School of Music

Commissions from: Kronos Quartet, Theatre of Voices, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Oakland Symphony, St. Louis Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, American Composers Orchestra, Bang On a Can All-Stars

Compositional style: Marshall considers himself an “expressivist”; his works often combine taped sounds from the “real world” with live performers.

Perhaps best known for: Fragility Cycles (1978) for synthesizer, tape looping, gambuh and voice; Fog Tropes (1981) for six brass instruments and tape; Peaceable Kingdom (1990) for the Los Angeles Philharmonic

Other accomplishments: founded New Albion records with Foster Reed; senior Fulbright scholar; Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Literature; Guggenheim fellowship; NEA and Aaron Copland fund grants

Raves: “…some of the most spiritual art to be found in America today...the music offers a powerful recreation of solitude that is very close to an experience of the divine.” --New York Times