Kerry Marsh - Arranger, Educator and Performer

Frequently Asked Questions > About Kerry (5 entries)

Who are your musical influences?

Besides my teachers, whom I discuss in an answer below, these artists and their music have had the most notable lasting effect on my writing and performing: The foundations ...
Where are you from originally?

I was born and raised in Great Bend, Kansas, a town of about 15,000 to 20,000 people right smack in the middle of the state, on the "bend" of the Arkansas ...
Where did you get your college degrees? How did you get into the vocal jazz scene?

I graduated from The University of Kansas with a degree in Music Education in 2000, and then hung out an extra year for boring logistical reasons, doing a year of Master's ...
Do you have an album/CD of your music?

Although I haven't recorded an album of my arrangements as a professional project yet (surely such a thing is down the road), many of my arrangements and compositions have been recorded ...
What instruments do you play, and when did you start playing them?

There are some early recordings of me singing when I was three and four, and my parents sang to me quite a bit, but my first formal music instruction was in ...