Composer Caroline Mallonée, a native of Baltimore, Maryland, has written a variety of instrumental and vocal works, including two operas and several pieces for orchestra. She was the subject of a March 2008 profile in Chamber Music Magazine written by Kyle Gann.  Recent commissions include new works for Present Music (Wisconsin), Ethos Percussion Group (New York), Friends School of Baltimore, and Monadnock Music (New Hampshire).  An octet for voice, six instruments and electronics 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 What You Are, a three-movement work for women's chorus and string sextet with poetry by Mark Strand commissioned by the Women's Voices Choir in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. 

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 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.  Recently, her solo piano piece, Pangrams, was performed by pianist Stephen Gosling at the 2009 Tribeca New Music Festival in New York City.  

At age 14, Ms. Mallonée composed The Carolers at My Door, a Christmas carol that was selected by Garrison Keillor for broadcast on a "A Prairie Home Companion."  It will be published by Boosey & Hawkes along with several of her more recent choral works in 2010. Nora the Nonapus, a children's opera, was commissioned by Long Leaf Opera and performed in 2007 by students at Estes Hills Elementary School in North Carolina.   

Ms. Mallonée holds a Ph.D. from Duke University, a Masters 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, Steve Jaffe, Scott Lindroth, Evan Ziporyn and Pamela Layman Quist.    

Ms. Mallonée currently serves on the adjunct faculty of New York University and is a teacher and administrator for The Walden School, a summer program for young musicians in Dublin, New Hampshire.  She lives in New York City.