Anna Marshall currently serves as the Adjunct Professor of Applied Horn at Grand Rapids Community College. They are a native of Michigan and attended Western Michigan University for their undergraduate studies and completed their masters at the University of Iowa. Anna is currently pursuing their Doctorate in Horn Performance at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a cognate in Music Technology. Their primary horn teachers include Lin Foulk Baird, Jeff Agrell, Bernhard Scully, and James Naigus.
Anna has previously held positions as the interim horn professor at SUNY Potsdam School of Music, as an adjunct horn professor at University of Illinois Springfield and Illinois Wesleyan University, and as a music instructor for the Music Shoppe in Champaign, IL. Anna began teaching private lessons in 2012 and has experience teaching courses and topics related to Horn Methodology, Creativity in Music, Classical Improvisation, Composition, and Music Technology.
Anna is passionate about new music with a focus on electroacoustic music featuring horn. Notably, they commissioned Hear There by Ralph Lewis which premiered at the 2022 Radiophrenia festival. In that same year, Anna joined two electroacoustic music consortiums for composers, James Naigus and Jenni Watson. While a part of Illinois Modern Ensemble from 2018 to 2022, they premiered a number of new works including playing principal horn on Algunas metáforas que aluden al tormento by Carlos Carrillo with Sō Percussion. Anna is currently developing a website dedicated to works for horn and electronics that includes an ever growing catalog of works featuring horn and electronic accompaniment.
