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Kevin Mallon grew up in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
A scholarship brought him to Manchester’s specialist music school, Chethams School of Music where he was greatly influenced by the conductor and early music specialist John Eliot Gardiner. Later studies included composition with Peter Maxwell Davies at Dartington College Of Arts and violin at the Royal Northern College of Music.
From 1989-92 he led and directed The Irish Baroque Orchestra and was concert master of Le Concert Spirituel and Les Arts Florissants in Paris. With these groups, Mallon recorded and performed concerts all over Europe, including Vienna, London (Wigmore Hall), Berlin, Paris (Versailles), Russia, The Baltic States, China, and Japan. In 1993 he accepted positions with the University of Toronto and Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, positions he has now left in order to pursue conducting full time.
In 1999 Mallon founded the vocal and instrumental group the Aradia Ensemble, with whom he has toured widely, and become conductor of the Toronto Chamber Orchestra. With these ensembles he has made over 50 recordings for Naxos, has produced two music videos and appeared on numerous film soundtrack (including “Yes Man” with Jim Carey in 2008). In July 2000, they were the featured ensemble in the New Zealand International Chamber Music Festival and in the summer of 2003 they performed in the festival: “Musica nel Chiostro”, in Tuscany. Aradia has made tours to the USA, Ireland and since 2010 has been the orchestra in residence at the Centre for Opera Studies in Italy. Mallon has conducted several opera companies including Opera Anonymous, Opera in Concert, Toronto Operetta Theatre. In 2004 the Gramophone and BBC magazines featured major profiles of Kevin. His recording of Boyce symphonies won a Gramophone Editors choice award in 2005 and his recording of Handel’s Water-music and Royal Fireworks Music won the same award in 2006. Further awards include a 2009 Juno nomination for a Haydn Symphonies CD and a 2016 Juno Nomination for a Vivaldi Sacred Music CD.
Kevin Mallon also fulfills numerous invitations to guest conduct including the Windsor Symphony, Symphony Nova Scotia, Symphony Niagara, the Hamilton Philharmonic, Thunder Bay Symphony, Orchestra London, Seattle Baroque Orchestra, Cambridge Concentus and the Halifax Summer Opera Festival.
Kevin’s most recent appointments are as Music Director of the Thirteen Strings Chamber Orchestra in Ottawa (2010), conductor for the Centre for Opera Studies in Italy (2010), conductor of New York’s newly formed West Side Chamber Orchestra (2011) and Music Director of Orchestra Toronto (2013).
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