Pamela J. Marshall is an American

United States

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 horn player and composer. She was born in Beverly

Beverly

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, Massachusetts

Massachusetts

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, and studied horn, electronic music and conducting at the Eastman

Eastman School of Music

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 and Yale

Yale School of Music

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 Schools of Music. After completing her education, she settled in Lexington

Lexington

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, Massachusetts. She plays French horn in orchestra and composes for synthesizer, brass, mandolin and orchestra.

Marshall has written software and developed sounds for Kurzweil Music Systems

Kurzweil Music Systems

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and worked at Powersoft Corporation as a technical writer. She established her own music publishing company, Spindrift Music.

Works

Marshall composes chamber, vocal and orchestral music. Selected works include:

• Colored Leaves for solo horn (1964)
• Hillslide for brass quintet and alphorn solo (1992)
• Spindrift (1974)
• Nautilus (1975)
• Meditations for organ (2005)
• Summer into Winter for clarinet (2007)

Her music has been recorded and issued on CD, including:

• Ghosts: Solos and Duets (2009) Beauport Classics, ASIN: B0049YJSBU