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Apr 14, 2007

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Marshall Cuffe has been taking piano lessons since he was 6 years old and joined the studio of Pamela Miller in the 5th grade. He began playing the viola in the 4th grade and started playing the organ in 7th. Marshall began substituting as a church organist and playing background music for various events when he was 12. He sat first chair violist in the Sprague High School Camerata Orchestra and studied voice lessons with Christine Welch Elder at Willamette University.

Marshall has won numerous awards for his musical achievements; he took First Place in the 2004 Wiscarson Concerto Competition and performed 7 times as a soloist with the Oregon Symphony. In 2005 Marshall was named an Outstanding Young Musician by Portland's All Calssical 89.9 radio station and featured in a radio interview and performance broadcast that year. In 2006, All Classical 89.9 sponsored him in an organ concert at Trinity Episcopal Church in Portland. Marshall won First Place in the Connie Fritz Memorial Concerto Competition and performed with the Salem Chamber Orchestra as a piano soloist in 2007. In the summer of 2007 Marshall was selected to attend the Interlochen Summer Arts Program in Michigan and performed as pianist with the World Youth Symphony Orchestra. In 2008 he became the only musician in the state to have won a total of 9 State Medals in the Oregon Junior Bach Festival. Marshall won the Salem Pops Orchestra and Gibbons Family Scholarships in winter of '07. Marshall was named a "Rising Star" by the American Guild of Organists and featured in a recital at the American Guild of Organists' 2008 National Convention in Minneapolis/St. Paul.

Marshall will attend Lawrence University and Conservatory of Music in Appleton, WI in 2008 to pursue degrees in Piano Performance and Clinical Psychology.

Country

United States

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Musician

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Sprague High School

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