Marcus Goddard is the Associate Principal Trumpet with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and has performed with Vancouver New Music, Standing Wave, the Vancouver Opera, the CBC Orchestra and the VSO Brass Quintet. Goddard has performed extensively throughout North America and Europe. He received a Bachelors Degree from the University of Michigan and earned a Masters from Indiana University. He has participated in seminars with William Bolcom, William Albright, and Krzysztof Penderecki, has attended lectures of Philip Glass and Samuel Adler, and is an associate composer with the Canadian Music Centre.
As a composer, Goddard has over thirty-five works in his catalogue and many of his works have been broadcast by CBC. Prior to his focus on works for orchestra and large ensemble, Goddard composed many pieces for chamber ensemble. Goddard composed and produced the score to the film, Breakfast at Sharkey's, and has composed two modern dance works, which were staged in Indiana. Many of his compositions have been premiered by some of North America's pre-eminent orchestras and ensembles. Goddard was born in 1973 in Vermont to an American father and French Canadian mother.
Marcus Goddard, Trumpet