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| Em Marshall MA
(Oxon), MCIJ Managing & Artistic Director The English Music Festival Em Marshall read Greats at Oxford, and currently devotes all her energies to making the EMF a successful enterprise. With considerable festival experience gained through work at the Three Choirs Festival and the Aldeburgh Festival, Em also spent over six years with Thames Publishing, and was later Concert Assistant for the concert promoter firm, Music at Oxford. When not working on the EMF, Em's attachment to English music continues through her involvement with a number of British composer societies, including that of the Ralph Vaughan Williams Society, of which she is a Trustee. She has also been the Secretary of both the Association of English Singers & Speakers and of the Peter Warlock Society, as well as the Head of Publicity for the Elgar Society. She is a regularly in print, writing mainly about music in the form of articles, reviews and programme notes, but is also a freelance journalist covering travel, theatre and literature and fine foods and wines. She enjoys an eclectic range of interests – from getting lost in Moroccan desert towns and being rescued by Berber merchants, through to Ancient Greek and Indian philosophy, and sports – from country strolls with her Border Collie through to sky-diving. She has been involved in the promotion of English music since the age of 15 and is determined to see it fully appreciated. She is currently writing a book on British Composers and the Landscape. |
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