Conductor: Seb Marshall

Seb Marshall is a freelance conductor and clarinettist based in London. He is currently the Musical Director of the Woodford Symphony Orchestra and the Tonbridge Community Singers, and the Assistant Musical Director of Hallmark of Harmony, a multi-award-winning barbershop chorus. He also conducts the Sinfonia at Camden Music Service on a Saturday morning (a youth orchestra for under-18s) and in the past has worked with Junior Trinity, Warrington Youth Orchestra, Bradford Music and Arts Service, Warrington Musical Society and Street Orchestra Live, as well as led workshops and choral music courses in partnership with the NHS.

Seb has played clarinet with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the Hallé, Northern Chamber Orchestra, and the Netherlands Wind Ensemble, and is on the extras list for the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. He also regularly plays with choral societies, at music festivals, weddings, and scratch projects. In February 2022 appeared as clarinet soloist with the Amaretti Chamber Orchestra, playing Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto.

Seb trained as a clarinettist at the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) and studied music at the University of Manchester, where he was active both as a conductor and clarinettist. He conducted all of the University’s orchestras and choirs, including on European tours, and also played principal clarinet in many of their most prominent orchestral projects, including Nielsen’s Fifth Symphony and Mahler’s Fourth Symphony. At RNCM he played principal clarinet with the Symphony Orchestra in a concert including Stravinsky’s Firebird and Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto, and 2nd clarinet in the college’s most prestigious concert in the Bridgewater Hall, which included Rachmaninoff’s Second Symphony and Ravel’s Piano Concerto for the Left Hand.

When Seb is not conducting or playing, he has a full schedule of peripatetic teaching of clarinet, saxophone, flute, recorder, and music theory. In his spare time he enjoys socialising, watching movies, cooking, and watching dog videos.