Eugene Marlow has composed jazz and classical pieces for solo instruments, chamber ensembles, and big band.

Marlow has been a participant (since 1998) in the BMI Jazz Composers Workshop which has performed numerous of his compositions for big band. Other of his jazz works have been performed by the Primary Colors Trio, the SYOTOS Latin/Jazz band with Chris Washburne, the Andy LaVerne Piano-Organ Trio , the Manhattan School of Music Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra, and the George Gee Swing Band.

“Sweetness,” a short jazz waltz, was arranged by composer Joe Phillips and can be heard on a September 2003 CD featuring The Numinous Orchestra. A commission (“Swing Trevor, Forever”) was performed by the Trevor Day School Big Band (New York City) in December 2003.

His classical works for chamber groups have been performed by the Kandinsky and Corigliano String Quartets, the Circadia Woodwind Quintet, and virtuoso solo pianist Nada Loutfi. A duet for violin and piano--"Aspects D'Amour"--was premiered at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York in May 2002. It was performed again in February 2005 by members of the Alaria Chamber Ensemble at CAMI Hall.

His duet for viola and cello, “Une Jeune Fille,” was performed by members of Alaria at a reading organized by the New York Composers Circle. Marlow has recently completed composing a piece for cello/piano entitled "There's No Replacing A Man of Wisdom." Dedicated to the late Dr. Emmanuel Hammer, Marlow wrote the 7-minute work especially for Alaria cellist Diliana Momtchilova.

Several pieces from his "Les Sentiments D'Amour" collection of solo piano pieces in the French chanson tradition were performed by Nada Loutfi at the Pen & Brush (New York City) in late 2004 and in mid-March 2005. The entire collection was recorded in December 2005, to be released in October 2006.

An electronic three voice serial fugue entitled “48 Rows in One Minute” was featured in the November 2003 performance of 60x60, a concert organized by VoxNovus (New York City). The 60x60 project also received a performance in Bucharest, Romania and at Brooklyn College (New York City), both in March 2004.

Marlow's most recent offering is the inaugural CD, "A Summer Afternoon With You," a collection of 10 original jazz compositions with composer/pianist Michael Abene leading a quintet including Chip Jackson (bass), Dave Meade (drums), Mike Mossman (trumpet/flugelhorn), and Bobby Porcelli (alto saxophone). It is available from amazon.com and cdbaby.com.

Marlow’s compositional activities have evolved from simple beginnings. In the early 1980s Marlow began to explore Hebraic liturgical melodies for their jazz possibilities. At this time he was invited to participate in a Dr. Billy Taylor led ASCAP workshop in jazz songwriting. In this venue he met Harold Danko (now teaching at Eastman) with whom he began to study composition theory and notation.

Since then Marlow has studied with Andy LaVerne and Marty Sheller (jazz composition), Milt Hinton and Laurence Hobgood (jazz performance), and Manny Albam, Michael Abene, Jim McNeely, and Grammy-winner Maria Schneider (big band composition/orchestration). He has studied music scoring for film and television with Paul Chihara (at ASCAP), Scott Smalley, and Jack Smalley. Marlow is currently studying with Pulitzer-prize winning composer Paul Moravec.

Marlow earned a Ph.D. in media studies from New York University in 1988. In 1998 Dr. Marlow completed a CUNY BA in music composition, followed by a master’s in music composition at Hunter College in 2001. He has since completed doctoral level work in music at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

In addition to his compositional and playing activities, Dr. Marlow is a professor at Baruch College (The City University of New York) where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in a variety of media-related courses. Dr. Marlow is in the throes of researching a book on Jazz in China.

Eugene Marlow also co-chairs the Milt Hinton Jazz Perspectives Concert series at Baruch College (now in its 15th season). He is also an active member of the International Association for Jazz Education, the Jazz Journalists Association, the American Music Center, and the American Composers Forum. He is an executive member of the nascent New York Composers Circle.