Pamela J. Marshall facts for kids

Pamela J. Marshall, born on May 31, 1954, is an American musician. She is known as a talented horn player and a composer. She creates music for various instruments.

Early Life and Education

Pamela Marshall grew up in Beverly, Massachusetts. She loved music from a young age. She studied at two famous music schools. These were the Eastman School of Music and the Yale School of Music. There, she learned to play the horn. She also studied electronic music and how to lead an orchestra.

A Career in Music

After finishing her studies, Pamela Marshall moved to Lexington, Massachusetts. She plays the French horn in orchestras. She also writes her own music. Her compositions use many different sounds. She writes for synthesizers, brass instruments, and mandolins. She also composes for full orchestras.

Since 2015, Pamela Marshall has been an important part of The k a rl h e nn i ng Ensemble. This music group is based in Boston. She plays the horn with them. She also writes new music for the ensemble.

Other Work and Spindrift Music

Besides her musical performances and compositions, Pamela Marshall has worked with technology. She created software and sounds for Kurzweil Music Systems. She also worked as a technical writer for Powersoft Corporation. Later, she started her own company called Spindrift Music. This company publishes her music.

Pamela Marshall's Compositions

Pamela Marshall has written many pieces of music. Her works include chamber music, which is for small groups of instruments. She also writes vocal music for singers and orchestral music for large orchestras.

Here are some of her well-known compositions:

• Colored Leaves (1964) – for a solo horn.
• Hillslide (1992) – for a group of five brass instruments and a special instrument called an alphorn.
• Spindrift (1974)
• Nautilus (1975)
• Meditations (2005) – for the organ.
• Summer into Winter (2007) – for the clarinet.
• Rising (2009) – for a solo viola.
• Shepherds and Angels (2010) – for a mixed choir, violin, and harp.
• Samurai Song (2018) – a song for a soprano singer, flute, and piano. It uses words by the poet Robert Pinsky.
• Birds on the Harmonic Plain (2018) – for two flutes, a clarinet, a horn, and recorded sounds.

Recorded Music

Pamela Marshall's music has been recorded. You can find her works on these CDs:

• Ghosts: Solos and Duets (2009)
• Through the Mist (2015)