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Mike Marshall is a mandolin player and has been an instrumental part of new acoustic music for the past 25 years. He has performed and recording with many musicians in a variety of styles, including bluegrass, classical, jazz and Brazilian music. In addition to several instruments in the mandolin family, Marshall also plays the guitar and violin.

Marshall has recorded and toured with other contemporary acoustic musicians such as David Grisman, Tony Rice, Mark O'Connor, Stéphane Grappelli, Darol Anger and Jerry Douglas. His two recordings on the Sony Classical label: Uncommon Ritual with banjo innovator Béla Fleck and bassist Edgar Meyer; and Short Trip Home with violinist Joshua Bell, mandolinist Sam Bush and Meyer were both on the Billboard Classical Music charts.

Marshall and his long time partner, Darol Anger, have released 6 albums as a duo on Compass and Windham Hill Records. Together they have also recorded with their experimental bluegrass group Psychograss with guitarist David Grier, banjo player Tony Trischka and bassist Todd Phillips.

Marshall's interest in classical music goes back to 1986 when he founded Modern Mandolin Quartet, a string quartet of mandolin family instruments. The group released four recordings for Windham Hill Records that redefined the mandolin in a classical-music setting. In 1995, the Quartet made its Carnegie Hall debut.

Mike has also been collaborating with Chris Thile from the group Nickel Creek. Their CD Into the Cauldron was released in 2003 on Sugar Hill Records and was listed in the top ten of Amazon.com’s favorite recordings for 2003. The two have set a new standard for contemporary mandolin playing today.

In addition to touring and recording regularly, Mike is also a partner in a new music label Adventure Music which is dedicated to releasing music from Brazil as well as Mike’s own projects.

His latest releases include The Music of Hermeto Pascoal, a duet recording with pianist Jovino Santos Neto Serenata and his Brazilian group Choro Famoso.

Other upcoming projects include a recording with Brazilian mandolinist Hamilton de Hollanda as well as concert dates and a live CD with mandolinist Chris Thile on Sugar Hill Records.

Besides his formidable musical talents, Marshall is a fine and inspired cook and has been known to trade lessons (music for cooking craft) with some of the Bay Area's finest chefs. He is also a well-known producer, with his Oakland-based Gatorland Studios responsible for some of the finest acoustic recordings in recent times. The combination of great cooking and cooking recording makes collaborations with Marshall at Gatorland one of the most sought after gigs in new acoustic music.

He is married to an exceptional violinist, Kaila Flexer, herself a prominent Klezmer musician. They have a lovely and precocious daughter, Lucy.

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