Nicholas Marshall Recordings

Nicholas Marshall was born in Plymouth in 1942. He studied music at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, and later at the Royal College of Music, where his composition teacher was Anthony Milner. He also studied privately with Sir Lennox Berkeley.

After leaving the RCM he returned to Devon where he took up an appointment teaching music at Dartington Hall School and College of Arts. From 1980 to 1985 he was the artistic director of the Ashburton Festival and more recently of the Budleigh Music Festival in Budleigh Salterton, Devon. He has conducted various choirs and is also active as an orchestral conductor.

He has written a wide variety of music – vocal, instrumental, choral and orchestral. His works for children include two operas, The Willow Pattern Story and The Young King, and he has also written incidental music for radio plays and other productions.