The music of Caroline Mallonée has been performed in New York City at Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall in Lincoln Center, Symphony Space, Merkin Hall, Tenri Cultural Center, Town Hall and Tonic, as well as at the Tribeca New Music Festival, Long Leaf Opera Festival, Carlsbad Music Festival, Bowdoin Summer Music Festival, 21st Century Schizoid Music, 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 "A 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 Dal Niente (Chicago), 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.  Recent pieces include Shadow Rings, a 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 and was premiered in Tokyo.

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, the Washington Square Contemporary Chamber Players and Present Music.  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 ANA Trio, the Buffalo Chamber Players, the Women’s Voices Chorus of North Carolina the Freudig Singers, the Atlantic Chamber Ensemble (Richmond, VA) and the DiGiallonardo Sisters, who performed her music on “A Prairie Home Companion.”  Mallonée’s new cello concerto for Feng Hew and the Camerata di Sant’ Antonio was premiered in Buffalo in April.

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 each summer.  This summer, Ms. Mallonée will be composer-in-residence at the Chamber Music Conference of the East at Bennington College in Vermont. 

Whistler Waves for solo cello and string orchestra was premiered April 14 by Feng Hew and the Camerata di Sant’ Antonio in Buffalo, NY.  Click here to listen to the piece.

Mallonée’s newest choral piece, “I Saw a Peacock With A Fiery Tail,” was read by VocalEssence in St. Paul, Minnesota on April 7.  Click here to hear it!

Click here to see a list of upcoming concerts.