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Kevin Mallon
leader

Kevin Mallon grew up in Belfast, Northern Ireland. A scholarship took him to Manchester’s specialist music school, Chetham’s School of Music, where he was greatly influenced by conductor and early music specialist John Eliot Gardiner. At Chetham’s, Kevin was involved in the choirs, singing with the award-winning Chetham’s chamber choir and at Manchester Cathedral. He was a member and rehearsal conductor of the National Choir of Great Britain. Later studies included composition with Peter Maxwell Davies at Dartington College of Arts and violin at the Royal Northern College of Music. While a student, Kevin played in projects with the Halle and BBC Philharmonic orchestra.

From 1989 to 1992, Kevin led and directed The Irish Baroque Orchestra, and was concertmaster of Le Concert Spirituel and Les Arts Florissants in Paris. In 1999, he founded the vocal and instrumental group The Aradia Ensemble, with whom he has toured widely, and became conductor of the Toronto Chamber Orchestra. With these ensembles, he made over 50 recordings for Naxos, produced two music videos, and appeared on numerous film soundtracks, including Yes Man (2008) with Jim Carrey.

Kevin has conducted the contemporary opera company Opera Anonymous. With Toronto's Opera in Concert, he has conducted Handel's Semele, Rinaldo, Tamerlano, Giulio Cesare, and Orlando; Rameau's Castor and Pollux; Vivaldi’s La Griselda; Mozart’s Zaide; Haydn’s Il mondo della luna; Schubert’s Die Freunde von Salamanka; and Rameau’s Hippolite et Arice. With the Toronto Operetta Theatre, he has conducted Wiener Blut by Johann Strauss, The Merry Widow by Franz Lehár, and Count of Luxembourg by Lehár.

In Ireland, he was appointed Artistic Director of Opera 2005, formed to celebrate Cork’s tenure as European Capital of Culture. In 2009, Kevin undertook a contract with the Odessa Opera in Ukraine to conduct in Odessa, then to tour Holland, Belgium, and Spain.

Kevin's most recent appointments are as Music Director of Thirteen Strings Chamber Orchestra in Ottawa, as Conductor of New York’s West Side Chamber Orchestra, Music Director of Orchestra Toronto, and as Interim Artistic Director of Opera Lyra, Ottawa.

He also fulfills a wide range of guest conducting engagements, recently including the Windsor Symphony, Symphony Nova Scotia, Symphony Niagara, the Hamilton Philharmonic, Thunder Bay Symphony, Orchestra London, Seattle Baroque Orchestra, Cambridge Concentus USA, and Halifax Summer Opera Festival.

Kevin Mallon
leader

Kevin Mallon grew up in Belfast, Northern Ireland. A scholarship took him to Manchester’s specialist music school, Chetham’s School of Music, where he was greatly influenced by conductor and early music specialist John Eliot Gardiner. At Chetham’s, Kevin was involved in the choirs, singing with the award-winning Chetham’s chamber choir and at Manchester Cathedral. He was a member and rehearsal conductor of the National Choir of Great Britain. Later studies included composition with Peter Maxwell Davies at Dartington College of Arts and violin at the Royal Northern College of Music. While a student, Kevin played in projects with the Halle and BBC Philharmonic orchestra.

From 1989 to 1992, Kevin led and directed The Irish Baroque Orchestra, and was concertmaster of Le Concert Spirituel and Les Arts Florissants in Paris. In 1999, he founded the vocal and instrumental group The Aradia Ensemble, with whom he has toured widely, and became conductor of the Toronto Chamber Orchestra. With these ensembles, he made over 50 recordings for Naxos, produced two music videos, and appeared on numerous film soundtracks, including Yes Man (2008) with Jim Carrey.

Kevin has conducted the contemporary opera company Opera Anonymous. With Toronto's Opera in Concert, he has conducted Handel's Semele, Rinaldo, Tamerlano, Giulio Cesare, and Orlando; Rameau's Castor and Pollux; Vivaldi’s La Griselda; Mozart’s Zaide; Haydn’s Il mondo della luna; Schubert’s Die Freunde von Salamanka; and Rameau’s Hippolite et Arice. With the Toronto Operetta Theatre, he has conducted Wiener Blut by Johann Strauss, The Merry Widow by Franz Lehár, and Count of Luxembourg by Lehár.

In Ireland, he was appointed Artistic Director of Opera 2005, formed to celebrate Cork’s tenure as European Capital of Culture. In 2009, Kevin undertook a contract with the Odessa Opera in Ukraine to conduct in Odessa, then to tour Holland, Belgium, and Spain.

Kevin's most recent appointments are as Music Director of Thirteen Strings Chamber Orchestra in Ottawa, as Conductor of New York’s West Side Chamber Orchestra, Music Director of Orchestra Toronto, and as Interim Artistic Director of Opera Lyra, Ottawa.

He also fulfills a wide range of guest conducting engagements, recently including the Windsor Symphony, Symphony Nova Scotia, Symphony Niagara, the Hamilton Philharmonic, Thunder Bay Symphony, Orchestra London, Seattle Baroque Orchestra, Cambridge Concentus USA, and Halifax Summer Opera Festival.