Touring Projects
Mike Marshall and Caterina Lichtenberg
Caterina Lichtenberg and Mike Marshall, two of the greatest living mandolinists in the world, have created a beautiful new chamber music duo.
Their recent release on Adventure Music captures their lively spirit within several musical styles. From Bach to Brazilian choro, and from Mike’s own compositions to Venezuelan music.
Caterina is the Professor of Mandolin at the Music Conservatory in Cologne, Germany. She and has been touring the world for eighteen years and has over ten CDs to her credit.
Together, these two virtuosos take you on a musical journey of the mandolin and mandocello – around the world and through the centuries – to create a provocative and engaging evening of music.
In just two years as a duo, Caterina and Mike have already performed concerts in San Francisco, New York, Lunel (France), Genova (Italy), London and Berlin.
Darol Anger and Mike Marshall
When speaking about Darol Anger and Mike Marshall’s live performances, people often use phrases like “synergy,” “breathtaking” or “space travelers.”
Darol and Mike have created their own way of speaking – through their instruments. A connection and a shared repertoire that goes very deep; developed over 35 years of music-making in a wide variety of music styles. It is very rare what these two have the ability to do in concert. A way of communicating through their instruments that is nothing short of breathtaking.
Edgar Meyer and Mike Marshall
Edgar Meyer and Mike Marshall have been playing music together for twenty years. Over these past two decades, they have developed a fully realized concept of the mandolin/bass duo. Edgar and Mike present a repertoire that spans the globe; from Bach duets to Brazilian choros, and from funky original pieces their own twisted fiddle tunes.
Psychograss
Psychograss is a who’s who of bluegrass super-pickers. Darol Anger (violin), Tony Trischka (banjo), David Grier (guitar), Todd Phillips (bass) and Mike Marshall (mandolin).
Just looking at that list of names will send shivers down any bluegrass picker’s mandolin strap.
It’s an elite group, with a collective catalogue of CDs and former ensemble, that adds up to nothing short of one of the cornerstones of 20th Century American stringband music.
Choro Famoso
What is Choro Music?
Choro is a style of Brazilian music that dates back to the 1870s, when European dance forms combined with the African rhythms of Brazil. Like much of the music of the Americas, this coming together of rich harmonic and melodic forms from Europe and the intoxicating rhythms of Africa are what created this new style and also gave birth to so many of the other Brazilian musical forms – like Samba and Bossa Nova.
Intricate melodies and virtuosic improvisations are the cornerstones of this style where mandolin, clarinet, 7-string guitar and percussion are the typical ensemble.
After a trip to Brazil in 1995, Mike fell in love with Brazilian Choro music. He returned with a suitcase full of sheet music and CDs, and immediately went to work to form this group of like-minded choro-heads.
