Violist Madison Marshall enjoys a multi-faceted career as a performer, researcher, and historical performance specialist. She has performed across North America, Europe, and the Middle East, giving concerts in venues such as Wigmore Hall, Carnegie Hall, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Alice Tully Hall, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, and the St. Thomaskirche in Leipzig.
Madison has made concerto appearances with the Utah and American West symphonies, and festival appearances at the Gstaad Menuhin Festival Academy, IMS Prussia Cove, Perlman Music Program, Dresdner Musikfestspiele, Thy Chamber Music Festival, Écoles d'Art Américanes de Fontainebleau, and Heifetz International Music Institute. She grew up in northern Utah, where she was a full-scholarship student at the Gifted Music School and the final student of noted viola pedagogue Dr. David Dalton. After completing undergraduate studies at the Colburn School, she graduated with honors from Yale University's master's degree program, and is currently enrolled in the PhD program at the Royal Academy of Music as a Calleva Scholar, where her research centers on creating viola transcriptions of works by early female composers.
Madison currently serves as the artistic director of the Florestan Festival, a Utah-based chamber music series she founded in 2019. She has worked extensively with members of the Brentano, Emerson, Guarneri, London Haydn, and Tokyo quartets, and collaborated with artists including Martin Beaver, Yael Weiss, and Pierre Henri Xugreb. While at Colburn, Madison received the school's inaugural Ida Levin award for excellence in chamber music, and in 2022, she was awarded the Broadus Erle string quartet prize by the Yale School of Music. Other awards include a win at the Prix de Ravel, where her quartet was presented the "premier prix" (first prize) by the Maurice Ravel Foundation.
An active proponent for historical performance practice, Madison's early music experiences have included appearances with the Sebastians, the Washington National Cathedral Baroque Orchestra, and at the Brecon Baroque Festival, receiving the Royal Academy of Music's Mica Comberti Prize for solo Bach performance, tours of Germany and the UK with Juilliard415 and the Yale Schola Cantorum, and performances with artists such as John Butt, Bjarte Eike, Rachel Podger, Stephen Stubbs, and Peter Whelan. Fascinated by off-the-beaten-path repertoire, in the coming months, she will be performing Antonio Draghi's L'humanita Redenta (not heard since its premiere in 1669) with Musica Antica Rotherhithe, and recording an album of cantatas by seventeenth-century Danish composer Nikolai Bruhns with Masaaki Suzuki.
Madison performs on an eighteenth-century Italian viola of dubious parentage and a 1757 Liedolff baroque viola. In addition to her musical pursuits, she is a published author, and enjoys rock collecting, hiking, and growing bonsai.
Madison has made concerto appearances with the Utah and American West symphonies, and festival appearances at the Gstaad Menuhin Festival Academy, IMS Prussia Cove, Perlman Music Program, Dresdner Musikfestspiele, Thy Chamber Music Festival, Écoles d'Art Américanes de Fontainebleau, and Heifetz International Music Institute. She grew up in northern Utah, where she was a full-scholarship student at the Gifted Music School and the final student of noted viola pedagogue Dr. David Dalton. After completing undergraduate studies at the Colburn School, she graduated with honors from Yale University's master's degree program, and is currently enrolled in the PhD program at the Royal Academy of Music as a Calleva Scholar, where her research centers on creating viola transcriptions of works by early female composers.
Madison currently serves as the artistic director of the Florestan Festival, a Utah-based chamber music series she founded in 2019. She has worked extensively with members of the Brentano, Emerson, Guarneri, London Haydn, and Tokyo quartets, and collaborated with artists including Martin Beaver, Yael Weiss, and Pierre Henri Xugreb. While at Colburn, Madison received the school's inaugural Ida Levin award for excellence in chamber music, and in 2022, she was awarded the Broadus Erle string quartet prize by the Yale School of Music. Other awards include a win at the Prix de Ravel, where her quartet was presented the "premier prix" (first prize) by the Maurice Ravel Foundation.
An active proponent for historical performance practice, Madison's early music experiences have included appearances with the Sebastians, the Washington National Cathedral Baroque Orchestra, and at the Brecon Baroque Festival, receiving the Royal Academy of Music's Mica Comberti Prize for solo Bach performance, tours of Germany and the UK with Juilliard415 and the Yale Schola Cantorum, and performances with artists such as John Butt, Bjarte Eike, Rachel Podger, Stephen Stubbs, and Peter Whelan. Fascinated by off-the-beaten-path repertoire, in the coming months, she will be performing Antonio Draghi's L'humanita Redenta (not heard since its premiere in 1669) with Musica Antica Rotherhithe, and recording an album of cantatas by seventeenth-century Danish composer Nikolai Bruhns with Masaaki Suzuki.
Madison performs on an eighteenth-century Italian viola of dubious parentage and a 1757 Liedolff baroque viola. In addition to her musical pursuits, she is a published author, and enjoys rock collecting, hiking, and growing bonsai.