Eldred Marshall

Eldred Marshall began studying the piano at age six and played in public by age seven. His prodigious and inquisitive mind allowed him to master large swaths of the piano repertoire quickly as well as consistently win top prizes at the competitions he entered as a child. By 16, he debuted with orchestra, playing Brahms’s Piano Concerto no. 2 in B-flat Major with the Victor Valley Symphony Orchestra. Before entering Yale University, where he graduated with honors with a B.A. in Political Science, he had already performed all over the United States.

A critically acclaimed pianist, he has performed internationally: Spain, Italy, the Republic of San Marino, Belgium, Germany, Romania, Bulgaria, the Ukraine, the People’s Republic of China,and Canada. He has performed the entire cycle of 32 Piano Sonatas of Beethoven in public, from memory, as a concentrated series, several times. Other major public projects and tours have included Bach’s The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1, Bach’s Goldberg Variations, and Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations. 

As an orchestral conductor, Marshall has led several international ensembles: The Ukrainian State Academic Orchestra (Kiev, Ukraine), the Kharkov Youth Symphony (Kharkov, Ukraine), the Pleven Philharmonic Orchestra (Pleven, Bulgaria), the Vidin Philharmonic Orchestra (Vidin, Bulgaria), the Filharmonica Oltenia di Craiova (Craiova, Romania), and the Constanta “Black Sea” Philharmonic Orchestra (Constanta, Romania). Additionally, he has led several recent opera productions, such as Mozart’s Bastien und Bastienne, Die Zauberflöte, Le Nozze di Figaro, and Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande, and Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro. 

Marshall earned his Doctor of Musical Arts in Piano Performance 
degree from the University of North Texas (UNT) in 2018. Additionally, he earned three Master of Music degrees from Southern Methodist University (SMU): piano (2011), organ (2012) and orchestral conducting (2013). Institutions at which he has taught include Texas A&M Commerce, UNT, SMU, and North Texas Central College.

He is the Artistic Director/Conductor of the Mansfield Philharmonic Orchestra, 
the Music Director/Conductor of the Music Ministry Conservatory Choir, and the founding Music Director of the Lucas Chorale. Prior to his appointment at Our Lady of the Lake Catholic Church, he served as Artist-in-Residence/Associate Director of Music at First United Methodist Church of Garland, where he founded and curated the West Avenue B Community Concert Series.