Conductor: Marshall Forrester

Marshall Forrester is Professor of Music at Charleston Southern University where he conducts the Wind Ensemble, as well as teaching conducting and arranging. He is the Founder and Director of the South Carolina Youth Wind Symphony and the Charleston Southern Summer Music Camp. Dr. Forrester was previously a professor with Carson-Newman University, where he was the recipient of the Teaching Excellence and Leadership Award and Music Director and Conductor of the Knoxville Wind Symphony. He holds degrees from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, the Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester, and is a graduate of the NC School of Science and Mathematics. Dr. Forrester is active in the College Band Director’s National Association, and served as host for the 2016 CBDNA Southern Division Conference in Charleston. He has presented wind music research for conferences of Die Internationale Gesellschaft zur Erforschung und Förderung der Blasmusik. Dr. Forrester enjoys consulting on database design for education, performing arts, entertainment, aviation, wellness, and telecom organizations in the USA, UK, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, Australia, and Sudan. He lives in Charleston with his wife, Lisa, sons Paul and Andrew (students at Yale and Duke Universities), and daughter, Katie, a student at Davidson College.