"Shows wit and a rare ability to communicate complicated processes with clarity".
The Independent

The work of Kevin Malone spans genres and media beyond any conventional labelling. Equally at home mixing live electronics and multimedia with harpsichords, choirs and orchestras, he embraces postmodernist and polystylist approaches.

 

Performances and broadcasts in Europe, North America and Australia have attracted both enthusiastic and bewildered reviews from the press.

 

Malone read mathematics and computer science at university before changing to music composition, with degrees awarded from the New England Conservatory, University of Michigan and University of London Goldsmiths' College as well as a Fulbright Fellowship for research in Paris. He also studied privately with Morton Feldman.

 

His work focuses on global events and issues, the nature of performance, the spoken voice, and interdisciplinary work and installations often using his own hybridized equipment.

 

His music is included in the soundtrack for the recent films To Kill a Killer and Lockout and his Concerto for Two Double Basses and String Orchestra, after 11 September 2001, Eighteen Minutes is awaiting CD release on the Campion label. He has also been commissioned to write a commemorative piece for  the fifth anniversary of 9/11, to be performed at the crash site of Flight 93

 

Malone is a Senior Lecturer in Composition at the University of Manchester and recently completed a year-long residency at the Manchester Museum and a six-month residency at Gorton Monastery.

 

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