Sheet music by Rupert Marshall-Luck

Acclaimed by audiences and critics alike for the verve, commitment and intelligence of his performances, RUPERT MARSHALL-LUCK appears as soloist and recitalist at major festivals and venues throughout the UK as well as in France, Germany, the Netherlands, the Republic of Ireland, Switzerland and the USA. Recent performances have included appearances a performance in London as part of the festival ‘John Ireland in Chelsea’ with the pianist John Lenehan and the cellist Julian Lloyd Webber; the London Première of Stanford’s Violin Concerto in G minor with the Orchestra of St Paul’s at St John’s, Smith Square; and an appearance at Cheltenham’s Pittville Pump Room as part of the EMF Autumn Festival; and a performance of Moeran’s Violin Concerto with the BBC Concert Orchestra, conducted by Martin Yates, which was broadcast live on BBC Radio 3. His recording of the complete music for violin and piano of Herbert Howells with Matthew Rickard for EM Records was released in April 2014; he has also, for the same label, made the World Première recordings of Violin Concertos by Robin Milford and Charles Villiers Stanford with the BBC Concert Orchestra, conducted by Owain Arwel Hughes, which was released in May. Future plans for this season include a recording in Autumn 2014 for EM Records of the complete music for violin and piano by C. Hubert H. Parry; and recordings of the Violin Sonatas of Percy Sherwood for Toccata Classics and of the Violin Concerto of Felix Draeseke.

Rupert’s recordings have attracted glowing critical acclaim from the international musical press, including ‘BBC Music Magazine’, ‘Fanfare’, ‘Gramophone’, ‘International Record Review’, ‘MusicWeb International’ and ‘The Strad’. His CDs of Violin Sonatas by Bliss, Walford Davies and York Bowen with the pianist Matthew Rickard for EM Records (EMR CD001) and of works for violin and piano by Elgar, Gurney and Sainsbury (EMR CD006) were both named as ‘Recordings of the Month’ by ‘MusicWeb International’; EMR CD001 was also commended by ‘BBC Music Magazine’: “Besides bombproof tuning and serious reserves of firepower, [Marshall-Luck’s] musicianship offers full-throated, gloss-free fullness of tone which would impress in any context”. His recording of Vaughan Williams’s Violin Sonata, Holst’s Five Pieces and Walford Davies’s Violin Sonata in E-flat was hailed by ‘The Strad’ for its “deeply committed and discriminating performances... Marshall-Luck’s ability to spin cantabile lines with the subtlest of inflections pays dividends.”; whilst ‘Fanfare’ stated: “Marshall-Luck’s technique and intonation are flawless... each work is projected with knowing sensitivity and communicative expression.” A disc of John Pickard’s chamber music for Toccata Classics (TOCC 0150) was also praised by ‘Fanfare’, being highlighted as “a compact disc not to be missed”; and ‘International Record Review’ commented: “Rupert Marshall-Luck proves as adept in an overtly contemporary idiom as in those of the early twentieth century with which he is most associated”.

As well as his busy schedule as a soloist and chamber musician, Rupert is active as a writer and speaker on the performing aspects of music, and he has presented lecture-recitals, seminars and masterclasses at the Universities of Bristol, Cambridge and Oxford, at Birmingham Conservatoire and the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, at University College London, and for the Centre for the History of Music in Britain, the Empire and the Commonwealth. He is General Editor of EM Publishing, which issues scholarly-critical editions of hitherto-unpublished works by British composers; and he has edited a number of works for performance and recording, including Violin Sonatas by Bantock, Bliss, Gurney, Sacheverell Coke and Walford Davies. His edition of Elgar’s popular salon piece Salut d’Amour, which includes the first issue of Elgar’s own version for cello and piano, will be published by G. Henle Verlag of Munich in March 2014.