Caroline Mallonée is among the most sought-after composers of her generation.  Her work has been performed in New York City at Avery Fisher Hall in Lincoln Center, Symphony Space, Tenri Cultural Center, and Tonic, as well as at the Tribeca New Music Festival, Long Leaf Opera Festival, Carlsbad Music Festival, Bowdoin Summer Music Festival, Chapel Hill Arts Festival, 21st Century Schizoid Music, Durham Downtown Music Festival, on the New Music New Haven series and at Boston’s Jordan Hall.  Her music has been performed in the U.S., the Netherlands, Wales, England, Iceland, Japan, Italy and Mexico, and has been broadcast several times over National Public Radio on Garrison Keillor's "Prairie Home Companion.” Several of her choral pieces, including The Carolers At My Door, are published by Boosey & Hawkes.

Recent commissions include new works for Firebird Ensemble (Boston), Present Music (Wisconsin), Ethos Percussion Group (New York), Friends School of Baltimore, pianist John McDonald (Boston) and Monadnock Music (New Hampshire).  An octet for voice, six instruments, electronics and video inspired by the paintings of Paul Signac written for the Wet Ink Ensemble was premiered in July 2009.  Last season also saw the premiere of Shadow Rings, a new quartet commissioned by Antares and Tomorrow Sharpened for marimba and piano, which was made possible by a grant from the Fromm Foundation.  Tomorrow Sharpened was written for Haruka Fujii and Eric Huebner; they premiered the work in Tokyo in July.

Ms. Mallonée's quartet, Throwing Mountains, received an ASCAP/Morton Gould Young Composers prize in 2004 and has been performed numerous times by the New York-based group counter)induction as well as by the Da Capo Chamber Players and the Washington Square Contemporary Chamber Players.  Another chamber work, 'stain, composed in 2002 for pulsoptional, is featured on their debut CD and has been performed throughout the United States by Flexible Music. 

Ms. Mallonée holds a Ph.D. from Duke University, a Master’s degree from the Yale School of Music and a Bachelor’s degree from Harvard University.  A Fulbright award recipient, she spent a year in The Netherlands studying with Dutch composer Louis Andriessen and has also studied with Mario Davidovsky, Joseph Schwantner, Stephen Jaffe, Scott Lindroth, Evan Ziporyn and Pamela Layman Quist.    

This season includes performances of Mallonée’s music by the UB Percussion Ensemble, Wild Rumpus, the Ancia Saxophone Quartet, the Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus, Vocalis Chamber Choir, the Baltimore Choral Arts Society and Florilegium Chamber Choir.

Ms. Mallonée is the director of The Walden School Creative Musicians Retreat, a week-long workshop in New England for composers, improvisers and performers.  She teaches at The Walden School Young Musicians Program in Dublin, NH every summer.