Marshall McGuire

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Marshall McGuire (born 1965) is an Australian harpist, teacher, conductor and musical administrator.

Early life and education

McGuire was born in Melbourne in 1965.[1]

His interest in the harp was sparked when he saw Harpo Marx playing the instrument in the film A Night at the Opera.[1] He was taught by Huw Jones, harpist with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.[1] He studied at VCASS, the Victorian College of the Arts, in Paris with Marie-Claire Jamet and the Royal College of Music, London.[citation needed]

Career

From 1988 to 1992, he was principal harpist with the

Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra. He has been a member of the ELISION Ensemble since 1988 and was lecturer in Harp at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music
.

He has performed as soloist with the

English String Orchestra, Les Talens Lyriques, Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, and the Australia Ensemble and has appeared at international festivals including Aldeburgh, Melbourne, Milan, Geneva, Brighton, Vienna, Huddersfield, Huntington, and Adelaide.[citation needed
]

He has commissioned and premiered more than 100 new works for harp, this achievement was recognised by the 1997 Sounds Australian Award for the Most Distinguished Contribution to the Presentation of Australian Music. His commissions include composers such as Michael Finnissy, Elena Kats-Chernin, Andrew Ford, Gerard Brophy, David Chesworth, Damien Ricketson, Matthew Shlomowitz and Matthew Hindson.[citation needed]

Performances and recordings

First performances by McGuire include works by Ross Edwards, Anne Boyd, Barry Conyngham, Alessandro Solbiati and Liza Lim. Many composers have sought his guidance in their writing for the harp. He writes: "Composers are always seeking information from harpists about what can and can't be done when writing for harp. While we should always be flattered when approached by a composer, we should also be aware of the boundaries that we set, so that we don't end up with unplayable music – I'd probably have said 'No' to both Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss. Mostly, less is more..."[2]

McGuire has released numerous recordings and has received four

ARIA Music Award nominations, winning the award for Best Classical Album for Bower (with Genevieve Lacey). Artists with whom he has worked and recorded include Riley Lee (shakuhachi); Patricia Pollett (viola); and Jane Edwards and Merlyn Quaife (sopranos). In 2011 he recorded Eugene Goossens' Concerto Piece for oboe and two harps with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sir Andrew Davis, for Chandos.[citation needed
]

In 1998, with

ABC Classic FM, which was a monologue based on the lives of such gay composers as Ned Rorem, Leonard Bernstein, Samuel Barber, Virgil Thomson, Aaron Copland, Paul Bowles, Francis Poulenc, Stanley Bate and Reynaldo Hahn.[3]

He made his conducting debut in performances of

Bundanon Trust. In 2010 he conducted performances of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas at the Macau International Music Festival.[citation needed
]

Artistic direction

In 2003 McGuire was appointed artistic director of the Seymour Group.[citation needed]

From 2013 to 2015, he curated, with Richard Tognetti, the "Haydn for Everyone" series for Melbourne International Arts Festival, programming performances of all 68 string quartets by Joseph Haydn, featuring quartets from Australia and around the world including Debussy Quartet, Modigliani Quartet, Flinders Quartet, Orava Quartet, Quartz, Ironwood, Australian Haydn Ensemble, Australian Chamber Orchestra, and London Haydn Quartet.[citation needed]

Since July 2015, he has been director of programming at the Melbourne Recital Centre.[citation needed][when?]

In 2020 he curated the Chamber Landscapes series at UKARIA for the Adelaide Festival. Composer + Citizen featured performances by Heath Quartet, Roomful of Teeth, Anthony Marwood, Siobhan Stagg, Ludovico's Band, and the Australian premiere of Lembit Beecher and Hannah Moscovitch's I Have no Stories to Tell You.[citation needed]

He is[

ABC Classics.[citation needed
]

Recognition

In 2003 McGuire was awarded an inaugural creative fellowship from the

piano reductions of Glanville-Hicks' Letters from Morocco and the final scene from the opera Sappho, and a new edition of the Sonata for Harp.[4][5]

He received a

Churchill Fellowship in 2004 to travel to San Francisco and New York to research baroque performance and contemporary music ensembles.[citation needed
]

Other roles

He is the founding president of the New Music Network; was chair of the music committee of the New South Wales Ministry of the Arts;[6] is a member of the Australian Youth Orchestra Artistic Advisory Committee; and was music director of the AYO's National Music Camp in 2003, 2006 and 2008. He was the inaugural curator of the Utzon Music Series from 2006 until 2011 at the Sydney Opera House, and in December 2006 was appointed executive manager, artistic planning, with the West Australian Symphony Orchestra. He was a participant in the Australia 2020 Summit held in April 2008 at Parliament House, Canberra.[7]

In 2018 he was on the selection jury for the ClassicalNEXT conference in Rotterdam, and a jury member for the piano trio section of the Franz Schubert und die Musik der Moderne competition in Graz, Austria.[citation needed]

McGuire was appointed chair of the board of the Australian Music Centre in 2021.[8]

Discography

Albums

List of albums
Title Album details
Awakening
  • Released: 1996
  • Label: Tall Poppies (TP071)
  • Formats: CD
Spring Sea – Music of Dreams
(with Riley Lee)
  • Released: 2000
  • Label: ABC Classics (ABC 465757-2)
  • Formats: CD
Floating World
(with Riley Lee)
  • Released: 2004
  • Label: New World Music (NWCD603)
  • Formats: CD
Resonance
  • Released: February 2015
  • Label: ABC Classics
  • Formats: Digital
Bower
(with Genevieve Lacey)
  • Released: May 2021
  • Label: Genevieve Lacey
  • Formats: Digital

Awards

AIR Awards

The Australian Independent Record Awards (commonly known informally as AIR Awards) is an annual awards night to recognise, promote and celebrate the success of Australia's Independent Music sector.

Year Nominee / work Award Result Ref.
2022 Bower (with Genevieve Lacey) Best Independent Classical Album or EP Won [9][10]

ARIA Music Awards

The

Australian music
.

Year Nominee / work Award Result Ref.
1996 Awakening ARIA Award for Best Classical Album Nominated
2000 Spring Sea (with Riley Lee) ARIA Award for Best World Music Album Nominated [11]
2003 The Twentieth Century Harp Best Classical Album Nominated
2021 Bower (with Genevieve Lacey) Best Classical Album Won [12][13]

References

  1. ^ a b c Marshall McGuire, "Still harping on at 50", Limelight, February 2015, p. 20
  2. ^ "ANU School of Music". Archived from the original on 11 October 2008. Retrieved 24 May 2009.
  3. ^ ABC Classic FM, 26 February 1998
  4. ^ "State Library of Victoria". Archived from the original on 29 March 2016. Retrieved 24 May 2009.
  5. ^ "The Peggy Glanville-Hicks Fellowship". Archived from the original on 20 August 2008. Retrieved 24 May 2009.
  6. ^ "Arts Hub Australia" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 February 2005. Retrieved 24 May 2009.
  7. ^ "Patrick Togher Artists' Management". Archived from the original on 23 October 2009. Retrieved 24 May 2009.
  8. ^ "Marshall McGuire, Director of Programming appointed Chair of the Australian Music Centre". Melbourne Recital Centre. Retrieved 9 March 2022.
  9. ^ "Nominees Announced For AIR Independent Music Awards 2022". musicfeeds. 1 June 2022. Retrieved 1 June 2022.
  10. MusicFeeds
    . Retrieved 6 August 2022.
  11. ^ ARIA Award previous winners. "ARIA Awards – Winners by Award – Best World Music Album". Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). Retrieved 12 November 2018.
  12. ^ Kelly, Vivienne (20 October 2021). "ARIA Awards nominees revealed: Amy Shark & Genesis Owusu lead the charge". The Music Network. Archived from the original on 20 October 2021. Retrieved 24 October 2021.
  13. ^ "Genesis Owusu, The Kid Laroi, Spacey Jane, RÜFÜS DU SOL big winners at the 2021 ARIA Awards in partnership with YouTube Music". Australian Recording Industry Association. 24 November 2021. Retrieved 24 November 2021.

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