Lin Marsh trained at Trinity College of Music and London University, later gaining an MA in Performance Arts at Middlesex University. She has worked extensively in music education and currently directs the Oxfordshire Youth Music Theatre.
Lin is also a composer and has written for BBC children’s programmes for both television and radio. She composed and directed the music for Where are the Children Now? as part of the Royal Opera House Education programme in December 1998 and works regularly with organisations such as the London Mozart Players, Birmingham Symphony Hall Education and the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
Her songbook series for schools, Songscape and Junior Songscape, are published by Faber Music. As a voice specialist, Lin works throughout the country running courses for teachers on singing, performance and composing skills and directs many choral festivals for all key stages. Lin works on many commissions for young people, composing both choral works and music theatre pieces, and has worked for the National Youth Music Theatre as a musical director for the production of Charlie in Buxton, Along Came Man, Song of the Earth, Brilliant the Dinosaur in Edinburgh and The Ballad of Salomon Pavey at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London.
Lin is much in demand for vocal coaching linked to music theatre singing and works both in the UK and abroad with groups of teachers, choral societies and young performers. Her book The Show Must Go On! co-written with Wendy Cook is a handbook for teachers giving advice on music theatre skills and the process of rehearsal to performance. Their piece Torchbearers was selected as a finalist in the Vivian Ellis awards 2000.
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Ms Walker Report this comment
Posted 10th Nov 2011 08:52
M e and the children themselves enjoy this song greatfully lol joke i am only 9 lol! not that im an immature student my teacher mr harrison says i am really mature beyond my years and i really like these singup songs
Miss Henshaw Report this comment
Posted 20th Feb 2011 10:51
good
Miss Buhhana Report this comment
Posted 14th Jan 2011 07:36
wonders for the childrens education
Ms Brookes Report this comment
Posted 2nd Sep 2010 10:14
Great!