Pamela J. Marshall facts for kids
Pamela J. Marshall (born May 31, 1954) is an American musician and composer. She was born in Beverly, Massachusetts. Pamela studied music at two famous schools: the Eastman and Yale Schools of Music. She learned to play the French horn, create electronic music, and conduct orchestras.
After finishing her studies, she moved to Lexington, Massachusetts. Pamela plays the French horn in orchestras. She also writes music for many different instruments, like the synthesizer, brass instruments, mandolin, and even full orchestras. Since 2015, she has been an important part of The k a rl h e nn i ng Ensemble in Boston, playing the horn and writing music for them.
Pamela Marshall has also worked with technology. She wrote computer programs and created sounds for a company called Kurzweil Music Systems, which makes musical instruments. She also worked as a technical writer at Powersoft Corporation. Later, she started her own company, Spindrift Music, to publish her own music.
Pamela Marshall's Compositions
Pamela Marshall writes many different kinds of music. She creates pieces for small groups of instruments (chamber music), for singers (vocal music), and for large orchestras. Here are some of her well-known works:
- Colored Leaves for a solo horn (1964)
- Hillslide for a group of five brass instruments and a special instrument called an alphorn (1992)
- Spindrift (1974)
- Nautilus (1975)
- Meditations for the organ (2005)
- Summer into Winter for the clarinet (2007)
- Rising for a solo viola (2009)
- Shepherds and Angels for a mixed choir (singers with different voice types), violin, and harp (2010)
- Samurai Song based on a poem by Robert Pinsky, for a soprano singer, flute, and piano (2018)
- Birds on the Harmonic Plain for two flutes (one player also plays piccolo), clarinet, horn, and recorded sounds (2018)
Her Recorded Music
Pamela Marshall's music has been recorded and released on CDs. This means you can listen to her compositions performed by musicians. Here are some of her albums:
- Ghosts: Solos and Duets (2009)
- Through the Mist (2015)
