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Dana Marsh

Chair, Department of Historical Performance
Professor of Music (Early Music/Voice)
Director, Historical Performance Institute

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Phone:
812-855-8301
Email:
dtmarsh@indiana.edu
Department:
Historical Performance Institute
Merrill Hall, MU333

Education

  • D.Phil. (Historical Musicology), University of Oxford, England
  • M.St. (Historical Musicology), University of Oxford, England
  • B.M. (Organ), Eastman School of Music, Rochester, N.Y.

Biography

Dana Marsh is professor of music in early music/voice, chair of the Historical Performance Department, and director of the Historical Performance Institute at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music.

Marsh’s musical training began as a boy chorister at St. Thomas Choir School in New York and at Salisbury Cathedral in England. He earned his undergraduate degree in organ performance from the Eastman School of Music, with later master’s and doctoral degrees in historical musicology from the University of Oxford.

Prior to his appointment at the Jacobs School in 2014, Marsh taught early music history at Oxford and Cambridge universities, publishing research and review articles through the scholarly presses of each. After completing doctoral studies at Oxford, he served as assistant director of music and director of chapel music at Girton College Cambridge.

Critically acclaimed by the Los Angeles Times as “an energetic and persuasive conductor” and by The Washington Post as “a superb choral conductor, energetic and precise,” Marsh has enjoyed fruitful collaborations with the Studio de Musique Ancienne Montreal, Cappella Romana, Choir of St. Thomas Fifth Avenue, Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra, Magnificat (U.K.), Portland Baroque Orchestra, and London Mozart Players, among others.

While residing, working, and studying in the U.K., he founded the ensemble Musica Humana Oxford (2001-8), which toured the U.S. to critical praise (“pleasing to the ear and satisfying to the soul.” –– Los Angeles Times).

Cited by The New York Times as “a powerful and expressive countertenor,” Marsh worked as a vocal soloist and consort singer in the U.S. and U.K. (1992-2008), performing with the American Bach Soloists, Concert Royal, New York Collegium (under Gustav Leonhardt), Seattle Baroque Orchestra, Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra, A Cappella Portuguesa, and the Brabant Ensemble.

While completing his doctoral research at Oxford, Marsh sang regularly with the Choir of New College, participating in tours and recordings with the Academy of Ancient Music, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, and European Union Baroque Orchestra. He recorded 15 discs with New College Choir, one of which won the Gramophone Award for Early Music in 2008.

In 2018, Marsh was appointed artistic director of the Washington Bach Consort, considered to be among the nation’s leading choral and period-instrument ensembles. He programs and oversees three series, which together offer over 25 concerts annually. In late 2019, The Washington Post opined that Marsh “has honed a company that could go head-to-head with period-performance ensembles anywhere.”

Marsh has also served as canon organist and director of music at Christ Church Cathedral Indianapolis. He has prepared ensembles of young singers for concert and recording engagements with the Los Angeles Philharmonic under Esa-Pekka Salonen and Antonio Pappano. He has recorded in various capacities for Sony, Universal, Avie, Decca, Erato, Koch International Classics, Signum, and Public Radio International.

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