The Irish conductor, violinist and composer, Kevin Mallon, was born in New Jersey, USA. However, at an early age he went to live in Belfast, Northern Ireland and became a student at St. Malachy's College. He won a scholarship to Chetham's School of Music in Manchester, UK, where he was greatly influenced by the conductor and early music specialist John Eliot Gardiner. Under him Mallon developed an interest in performance on period instruments, leading to a distinguished career as a violinist and conductor. At Chetham’s, Mallon was involved in the choirs, singing with the award winner Chetham’s chamber choir and at Manchester Cathedral. He was a member, and rehearsal conductor, of the National Choir of Great Britain. Mallon later studied composition with Peter Maxwell Davies at Dartington College of Arts, and studied violin at the Royal Northern College of Music. While a student Mallon played in projects with the Hallé Orchestra and BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.

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The Irish conductor, violinist and composer, Kevin Mallon,
was born in New Jersey, USA. However, at an early age he
went to live in Belfast, Northern Ireland and became a student
at St. Malachy's College. He won a scholarship to Chetham's
School of Music in Manchester, UK, where he was greatly
influenced by the conductor and early music specialist John
Eliot Gardiner. Under him Mallon developed an interest in
performance on period instruments, leading to a distinguished
career as a violinist and conductor.

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At Chetham’s, Mallon was involved in the choirs, singing with
the award winner Chetham’s chamber choir and at Manchester
Cathedral. He was a member, and rehearsal conductor, of the
National Choir of Great Britain. Mallon later studied
composition with Peter Maxwell Davies at Dartington College
of Arts, and studied violin at the Royal Northern College of
Music. While a student Mallon played in projects with the
Hallé Orchestra and BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.

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In 1989-1992 Kevin Mallon led and directed The Irish Baroque
Orchestra, was concert- master of Le Concert Spirituel and Les
Arts Florissants in Paris. With these groups, he 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
and has developed parallel career as a conductor of opera,
choral and orchestral music. He now left those positions in
order to pursue his conducting career.

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In 1999 Kevin 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 (including a series of 20th century works), has produced
two music videos and appeared on numerous film soundtrack
including Yes Man- Jim Carey (2008). The Aradia Ensemble
has toured extensively across Canada, to Ireland, Italy, the
USA and New Zealand. From 2010 to 2013 Aradia Ensemble
was the orchestra in residence at the Centre for Opera Studies
in Italy with Mallon conducting: George Frideric Handel’s
Giulio Cesare (2010), W.A. Mozart’s Don Giovanni (2011), Le
nozze di Figaro (2012).

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Kevin Mallon has conducted the contemporary opera company
Opera Anonymous– Igor Stravinsky’s Rakes Progress (1999), and the
early 19th century opera Lucas et Cecile by Canadian Joseph Quesnel
(2001). With Toronto’s Opera in Concert, he has conducted G.F.
Handel’s Semele (2002) and Rameau’s Castor and Pollux (2003), G.F.
Handel’s Rinaldo (2004), G.F. Handel’s Tamerlano (2005) Antonio
Vivaldi’s La Griselda (2006), W.A. Mozart’s Zaide (2008), Il mondo
della luna, by Haydn, (2009), G.F. Handel’s Giulio Cesare (2010), Die
Freunde von Salamanka by Schubert (2012) G.F. Handel’s Orlando
(2103) and Hippolite et Arice of Rameau (2014). With the Toronto
Operetta Theatre has conducted Wiener Blut by Johann Strauss (2006)
The Merry Widow by Franz Lehár (2007) and Lehár’s Count of
Luxembourg (2008).

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The Gramophone and BBC magazines have featured major
profiles on Mr. Mallon. He won Gramophone Editors Choice
Awards for his recordings of Boyce symphonies and G.F.
Handel’s Water-Music and Royal Fireworks. Further awards
include a 2009 Juno nomination for a Haydn Symphonies CD.

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In Ireland Kevin Mallon was appointed Artistic Director of
Opera 2005, formed to celebrate Cork’s tenure as European
Capital of Culture. With this company he conducted W.A.
Mozart’s Figaro’s Wedding (2005), Georges Bizet’s Carmen,
(2005), Weill’s Threepenny Opera (2006) and Rossini’s Barber of
Seville (2006), Don Giovanni (2007), Verdi’s Ballo in Maschera
(2008). The company was three times nominated for the Irish
Times Theatre Award. In 2004 and 2005 he conducted several
cantatas in Orchestra of St Cecilia: Bach Cantata Series in Dublin.
In 2009 he undertook a contact with the Odessa Opera, Ukraine,
as to conduct in Odessa, then on tour to Holland, Belgium and
Spain.

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Kevin Mallon’s most recent appointments are as Music Director
of Thirteen Strings Chamber Orchestra in Ottawa (2010), as
Conductor of New York’s newly formed West Side Chamber
Orchestra (2011), Music Director of Orchestra Toronto (2013) and
as Interim Artistic Director of Opera Lyra, Ottawa (2014).

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He also fulfills a wide range of guest conducting engagements,
recently including the Windsor Symphony, Symphony Nova
Scotia and Symphony Niagara, the Hamilton Philharmonic,
Thunder Bay Symphony, Orchestra London, Seattle Baroque
Orchestra, Cambridge Concentus, Halifax Summer Opera
Festival etc. Kevin Mallon is an Irish fiddler and is also a
composer; most recently writing music for the TV series
Camelot.

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Kevin Mallon