Kimberly Marshall is known worldwide for her compelling presentations of organ music. 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. Her distinguished achievement in organ performance and scholarship has been recognized by the Royal College of Organists with their highest award. She is the principal editor for a publicly accessible online Encyclopedia of the Organ and for the Oxford Handbook of Organ Pedagogy and Performance. She is also an accomplished teacher, giving master classes internationally and teaching an annual summer organ academy in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Marshall has performed and presented her research at 13 national conventions of the American Guild of Organists. She gave the final recital on the two large organs at Stanford’s Memorial Church for the San Francisco Convention in July 2024. In 2023 she gave 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. She opened the 2025 concert series at St. Thomas, Fifth Avenue, New York, later performing in Buenos Aires, Belgium, and Sweden. Her engagements in 2026 include participation in an 8-day performance of John Cage’s Organ2/ASLSP, concerts in the US and Mexico, and adjudication for the Munich International Music Competition.
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.
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