Evan Marshall is a virtuoso mandolinist, prominent as an arranger of classical music pieces for the mandolin and proponent of the duo style of playing.
[7][8] Marshall plays with what he calls a "musician's sleight of hand", the duo style.
[7] Duo style is a technique in which the mandolin player plays both the melody line of music, as well as harmonic parts, sounding like more than one instrument.
[7] The technique was made famous by Giovanni Gioviale in the early 1900s.
[7] In the American tradition, the technique was used by early mandolin virtuosos Samuel Siegel, Valentine Abt and Seth Weeks in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries.