Kimberly Marshall is known worldwide for her compelling programs and presentations of organ music. Her distinguished achievement in organ performance and scholarship was recognized by the Royal College of Organists in 2022 with their highest award. She is an accomplished teacher, giving master classes internationally. She currently holds the Patricia and Leonard Goldman Endowed Professorship in Organ at Arizona State University. From 2019-2022 she held the Hedda Andersson Visiting Professorship at the Malmö Academy of Music.
Marshall has performed and presented her research at 11 national conventions of the American Guild of Organists. In July 2018, she was chosen as the organ soloist with orchestra for the final concert of the AGO National Convention in the Kauffman Center, Kansas City, where she was extolled for “the ease and facility” with which she performed the “virtuosic pedal cadenza.” (The American Organist, Oct 2018). She gave the final recital on the two large organs at Stanford’s Memorial Church for the San Francisco Convention in July 2024.
Marshall’s engagements in 2023 included recitals for the Oaxaca International Organ Festival, a teaching residency at Yale University, and performances at the Orgelpark in Amsterdam, St. Paul’s Cathedral, London, and on the new symphonic organ at Göteborg Concert Hall (Sweden). In 2024, she was invited for a residency at the Tokyo University of Fine Arts, a concert tour on the east coast of Italy, and as a member of the jury for the Canadian International Organ Competition in Montréal, performing a concert at the Chapelle du Grande Séminaire. She began 2025 with a recital on the prestigious concert series at St. Thomas, Fifth Avenue, New York.
Performer, scholar, and educator, Kimberly Marshall is a committed advocate of the organ. She works to promote the instrument in both local and global communities. An authority on the organ’s rich history over the past 2000 years, she is devoted to continuing this tradition of artistic ingenuity into the next millennium.
Contact
602.909.2810
kimberly.marshall@asu.edu
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Other links
- Interviews and performances from A Fantasy through Time
- W. T. Best’s organ transcription of Mendelssohn, Overture to St. Paul, at 2010 Washington National AGO Convention
- Connor Chee, Hózhó, the first organ work by Diné (Navaho) composer Connor Chee
- “L’espoir que jay” by Pierre Attaingnant at the Renaissance organ of St. Julien-du-Sault (basis for Alain’s Variations sur un theme de Clément Jannequin)
- Kochersperger Spanieler by Hans Kotter, on the Wetheringsett Organ (inspired by a 16th c English soundboard)
- Late-Medieval Organ Repertoire with Kimberly Marshall, Ileborgh Tablature
- Music Series: All Bach on the Flentrop | May 3, 2024, 7:30 p.m. | Saint Mark’s Seattle