CURRICULUM VITAE
DOB - 14/6/66
MUSIC EDUCATION
1979-82 – Shene Comprehensive School. Had first tuba lessons with Trumpeter,Graham Dennis Sanders (aka Giant Haystacks)
1980-84 – Studied tuba with Steven Wassell at the Royal College of Music,Junior Department.
1984-86 – RCM(Senior Department). Main tuba teacher was John Jenkins but also had lessons with James Gourlay and Stuart Roebuck.
1980-87 – Had private lessons with John Fletcher who became my Mentor.
DIPLOMAS
1983 - Associate of the Royal College of Music (Hons)
1984 – Fellow of Trinity College, London
1988 – Licentiate of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (Performance and Communication Skills)
AWARDS
1980 – Shene School “For Service to the Community” (put on a series of concerts for tuba and piccolo for the hard of hearing)
1982 – Angela Bull Memorial Prize (Royal College of Music)
1984 – BBC Young Musician of the Year (South East Regional Winner, 3rd prize in National Finals)
1987 – Shell/LSO Music Scholarship, Gold Medal
1991 – Geneva International Music Competition, 3rd Prize
2002/3 – BBC Jazz Awards, Nomination for award in Innovation
WORK EXPERIENCE
European Classical / Orchestral
1986-Present – London Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, English National Ballet, Scottish Ballet, Birmingham Royal Ballet, Canadian Ballet, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra.
Chamber Music
1986-Present – London Brass(including worldwide tours and numerous recordings), London Sinfonietta, Bournemouth Sinfonietta, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Academy of St Martin-in-the-fields, New London Chamber Choir, Critical Band, Wallace Collection, LSO Brass Ensemble, LPO Brass Ensemble, BSO Brass Ensemble, Onyx Brass Quintet, English Tuba Quartet (with Melvyn Poore, Dave Powell and Robin Hayward), London Chamber Orchestra, Bolshoi Soloists.
Solo
From 1982 - Various recitals of standard and new repertoire including :
1985 – Park Lane Group, Contemporary Music Series at the Purcell Room, London.
1986 – Vaughan Williams Tuba Concerto with the Edinburgh Youth Orchestra at the Usher Hall, Edinburgh.
1987 – Vaughan Williams Tuba Concerto with the London Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican Halls, London.
1988 – Recording of Django Bates´ “Stay Here” with Django Bates (Piano) and Steve Arguelles(Drums) for WQXR, New York.
1989 – Premier of Jacques Cohen Tuba Concerto with Oxford Chamber Orchestra.
1991 – Valery Strukov Tuba Concerto with the Orchestra of the Swiss Romaunde, Geneva.
1993 – Premier of Jeremy Arden´s “Bayo´s Way”, a concerto for Electric Tuba and Brass Ensemble, with London Brass at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London and various tours including Italy, Germany and USA.
2001 – Recital with Evelyn Glennie(Percussion), Hakan Hardenburger(Trumpet) and Christian Lindberg(Trombone) at the Wigmore Hall, London.
2008 - Contemporary Music Network Tour of the UK supporting Murcof (for reviews see “Albums” page at www.orenmarshall.com )
Jazz / Improvised Music
Big Bands
1984-Present – Loose Tubes, Jazz Warriors, Ubiquity Orchestra, Tom Bancroft Orchestra, Keith Tippet´s Tapestry, Brotherhood of Breath, John Dankworth Band, BBC Big Band, Dave O´Higgins´Biggish Band, Laurence Cottle Big Band, Django Bates´ Delightful Precipice, John Taylor Big Band, Mike Gibbs Big Band, The F-ire Collective, Julian Joseph Big Band. Also various projects with The Creative Jazz Orchestra including collaborations with Peter Erskine(Drums), Tim Berne(Alto Sax), John Taylor(Piano) and Kenny Wheeler(Trumpet).
Small Bands
1987-Present – Big Air (with Chris Batchelor, Steve Buckley, Myra Melford and Jim Black), Low Frequency Tuba Project (with Marcus Rojas, Jay Rozen and Sergio Carolino), Billy Jenkins´ Songs Of Praise, Claude Deppa´s Five Funky Fellas, Snorkel, Arend Niks Project, Pete Eckford´s Black Ink, Finn Peters Quintet, Mervyn Africa Quartet, The Ellingtoons, Paul Dunmall Quintet, Oren´s Panacea, Julian Joseph´s Forum Project, Microgroove, Dylan Bates´ Waiting On Dwarfs, Martin Speake´s Fever Pitch, Bitten by a Monkey, Nigel Burch and the Fleapit Orchestra, Derek Bailey´s Company week (´92), Julian Arguelles Quartet, Temporary Brass Trio, Electric Trio with Scanner and David Shea, Nick Ramm´s Clown Revisited, numerous trios with Drummer, Steve Noble including, with Davey Williams (Guitar), Steve Buckley (Altosax), Paul Dunmall (Tenor sax), Billy Jenkins (Guitar), Abram Wilson´s Delta Blues Project, Duo with Conga virtuoso, Maurizio Ravalico, Sonic New York (with Sxip Shirey - Harmonica, Adam Matta - Human Beatbox)
Solo
1988 – First solo improvised gig using electronics, Club Dog, North London. Since then, regular solo performances on the Jazz/Free Improv scenes including :
199? – South Netherlands Jazz Festival, Holland
1998 – LMC Festival
2002 - The Wapping Project, UK
2003 - SPNM Festival and London Jazz Festival, UK
2003 - Manchester Jazz Festival, UK
2003 - John Cage Festival, UK
2004 - Stadtgarten Festival, Germany
2005 - Supporting Singer/Songwriter Patrick Wolf, UK
2006 - KRAAK Festival, Belgium
2006 - Venn Festival, UK
2007 - Dialogues Festival, UK
2007 - Abbesmuseum, Holland
2007 - Durham International Brass Festival, UK
2007 - Supporting Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Holland
2007 - TryTone Festival, Holland
2008 - Haggadah Hasmalit, Israel
African
1991-Present – Collaborative projects : Kakatsitsi (Ghana), Pan-African Orchestra (Ghana), Ghana Dance Ensemble Drummers, West African Folkloric Troupe of Ghana, Dromé Cultural Group (Ghana/Ivory Coast), Ghana Cultural Ballet, Amatye Dede (Ghana Highlife), Rasha and Wafir Shekheldin (Sudan), Abdelkader Sadhoun (Algeria), Ntchuks Bonga Quartet (South Africa).
Other International Collaborations include :
Chandru (India), Ustad Imrat Khan (India), Abbos (Uzbekistan), Group Tashkent (Uzbekistan), Rafael Toral and Cesar Burago (Portugal), Marc Miralta (Spain), Harold Rubin (Israel), Asaf Sirkis (Israel), David Krakauer (USA), Bob Moses (USA), Randy Brecker (USA), Gunther Schuller (USA), Bosco d´Oliveira (Brazil), Afroshock (Italy), Franz Hautzinger (Austria), Michel Godard (France), Jens Bjorn-Larsen (Denmark), Peter Brotzman (Germany), Axel Dorner (Germany), Joost Buis (Holland), Rolf Harris (Australia).
TEACHING (Also see “Teaching” at www.orenmarshall.com )
Music Colleges
1988-93 – Tuba teacher, Royal College of Music (Junior Department)
1989-93 – Tuba teacher and ensemble coach, Guildhall School of Music
and Drama (Junior Department)
1998-Present – Ensemble coach, Royal Academy of Music (Jazz)
2004-Present – Tuba teacher and Ensemble coach, Trinity College of
Music
2003-Present – Visiting professor, Royal College of Music, Royal
Northern College of Music, Royal Scottish Academy
Of Music and Drama, Royal Welsh College of Music,
Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
Schools
1987-2005 – Music Workshops in schools around the UK as a member of
London Brass, London Sinfonietta and Academy of St Martin
-in-the fields.
2000-2002 – After-school music activities (Percussion based) for 5-11 year
olds, Waltham Forest and Lewisham Music Services.
2005-Present - Kidsamonium (a show to entertain and educate. For more information see www.kidsamonium.com )
DANCE CLASS ACCOMPANIMENT
2000-2004 – Resident accompanist (Percussion) at Kingsway College,
London
2005-Present – Resident accompanist (Percussion and Tuba)
Greenwich Dance Agency
FILMS AND SESSION WORK
Include : Captain Corelli´s Mandolin, Chicken Run,
Bridget Jones Diary, Robin Hood, Arthur,
Antz, Hellboy 2, Postman Pat and the Tuba, Easy Virtue
OTHER INTERESTS
Recorder (Grade 8 Distinction), Atenteben (Ghanaian Bamboo Flute), Capoeira (Brazilian Dance/Martial Art), Salsa Dance