Editing Ingram Marshall (section)

==Early life and education==
Marshall was born in [[Mount Vernon, New York]]. He was the son of Bernice Douglass and Harry Reinhard Marshall, Sr. Marshall's early interest in music was the result of encouragement provided by his mother, herself an accomplished pianist and vocalist. As a youth, he performed as a soprano in the Boy's Choir at the Mt. Vernon Community Church, and during his high school years was influenced early by noted music instructor Victor Laslo.  After graduating from the [[Fox Lane High School]] in 1960, he pursued musical studies at [[Lake Forest College]] and [[Columbia University]], becoming affiliated with the [[Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center]]. In 1970 he became a graduate assistant to Morton Subotnick at [[California Institute of the Arts|Cal Arts]], staying on to teach for several years after receiving his MFA in 1971.