“Kevin
Mallon is an excellent conductor. As the authentic
performance movement’s first wave of conductors age,
talented younger conductors are arriving on the scene to
further the precepts of their maturing
antecedents.”
Mike
Birman, Boxset.ru
News
Controversy!
Kevin Mallon
answers a critic!
The orchestra I
conduct in Ottawa, the Thirteen Strings Chamber Orchestra
did a production of Handel's Giulio Cesare earlier this
year. As you can imagine, for a small orchestra, this was a
huge undertaking. After the performance we were "reviewed"
by an anonymous blogger. What he had to say made my blood
boil and so I decided to answer him.
http://www.theheckeler.ca/2012/04/concert-review-thirteen-strings-trapped.html
Then it seems, this created a huge commotion—the CBC
(Canada’s radio station) even doing a program about the
issue:
Opinions Unleashed: Is the armchair music critic a prophet,
a curse, or a bore?
http://music.cbc.ca/#/blogs/2012/5/Opinions-Unleashed-Is-the-armchair-music-critic-a-prophet-a-curse-or-a-bore
You
can see the whole debate on my blog:
http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5188539575898160444#editor/
target=post;postID=5750789736172647275
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Kevin Mallon chosen as
candidate for Music Director, Windsor Symphony Orchestra
Justin
Bieber was found on YouTube, why not a
conductor?
Toronto Star--
Feb 17, 2012
Conductor
Kevin Mallon, with the West Side Chamber Orchestra in
New York, is a finalist to conduct the Windsor
Symphony Orchestra.
http://www.toronto.com/article/714045
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Blog interview on barczablog
http://barczablog.com/2011/12/18/dubmes2011/
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Inauguration
of the West Side Chamber Orchestra
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September 12, 2011
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West
Side Chamber Orchestra performing Beethoven's Symphony
No. 1 in C at St. Peter's Church in
Chelsea.
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Brian Harkin for The New York Times |
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/12/arts/music/west-side-chamber-orchestras-inaugural-concert-review.html?_r=1
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This is my Music! CBC show
http://music.cbc.ca/#/This-is-My-Music/blogs/2012/2/Conductor-Kevin-Mallon-hosts-This-Is-My-Music
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Aradia’s New Blog!
Past Forward- Kevin Mallon and the Aradia Ensemble
http://aradiapastforward.blogspot.ca2011_12_01_archive.htmld
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Music of the English Chapels Royal
Who?: The Choir and Orchestra of Aradia Ensemble - Kevin Mallon, Director
When?: September 16th, 2011, at 8pm
Where?: Glenn Gould Studio, 250 Front St. West
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Kevin Mallon writes music for International TV series: Camelot
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0540078/
Further film credits include:
La fille du RER (2009) also known as: The Girl on the Train (2009)
"Israel in Egypt - The Exodus: He smote all the first-born of Egypt"Music by George Frideric Handel Performed by Aradia EnsembleConducted by Kevin Mallon
see: http://youtu.be/sHdrFRGykbM
Guy Maddin: Waiting for Twilight 1997 (documentary) narratorTom Waits
(music director: The Aradia Baroque Ensemble- Kevin Mallon)
Aradia Ensemble
performs on soundtrack of new Jim Carrey movie
Aradia Ensemble is featured on the soundtrack of the new Jim Carrey movie Yes Man. Excerpts from Handel's Water music conducted by Kevin Mallon can be heard alongside tracks by the Eels and even a song by Carrey himself!
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Love it that someone made a Wikipedia page-- now if I could just update it.....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Mallon
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Aradia perfoms Dido and Aeneas in Newfoundland!
Opera on the Avalon, June 2011.
Aradia Ensemble, Conductor Kevin Mallon, Stage Direction Tim Albery
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ARADIA ENSEMBLE
KEVIN MALLON, DIRECTOR
Bach + 1 SATURDAY May 14, 2011
Glenn Gould Studio, 8pm
Following
the huge success of the new-music
concert Baroque
Idol, the
Aradia Ensemble presents an innovative multi-media concert
centred around the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. The
concept is simple: we begin with the basic baroque ensemble
- two violins, viola, cello and harpsichord - and then add
one artist at a time. The first to be added is a flutist
(Mylene Guay), then a soprano (Virginia Hatfield), then an
actor portraying Glenn Gould (Norm Owen), then an
artist doing live drawing (John Coburn), then a choir
(Element Choir). For the grand finale, four dancers -
Jeremy Nasmith, Kate Garrett, Tyler Gledhill, and Julia
Sedwick - perform a new choreography by Nasmith. This
concert has it all!
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St. Patrick’s Day
concert March 2011,
Ottawa—St. Bridget’s Centre for the Arts- Kevin Mallon
playing Irish music.
Ottawa’s
Thirteen strings names
Kevin Mallon new music director
April 27, 2010 Arts
Conductor
and violinist Kevin Mallon, new director of Ottawa’s
Thirteen Strings)
Toronto conductor and violinist Kevin Mallon, director of
Canada’s Aradia Ensemble and a former concertmaster with
the French early-music group Les Arts Florissants, has been
named director of Ottawa’s Thirteen Strings orchestra.
The group, which presents six concerts each season at St.
Andrew’s Church in music ranging from baroque to
contemporary, has been searching for a new director and
working with guest conductors since previous director
Jean-François Rivest stepped down in 2006.
Mallon, 45, impressed musicians in a guest appearance last
January, with a concert of music that spanned four
centuries.
Citizen
critic Richard Todd described it as “one of the most
enjoyable Thirteen Strings concerts in a long while.”
By all accounts, the maestro and musicians clicked from
their first rehearsals.
Read More:
http://blogs.ottawacitizen.com/2010/04/27/ottawas-thirteen-strings-names-kevin-mallon-new-music-director/
Kevin Mallon interviewed about the job:
http://www2.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/artslife/story.html?id=a9acc55a-55fd-4e61-9c11-91284804e845
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Samuel Arnold:
Polly, Aradia Ensemble/Mallon
(Naxos)
- Nicholas Kenyon
- The Observer, Sunday 11 April 2010
The short-breathed songs bubble with exuberance and unexpected inventiveness and the performances by the light-voiced soloists of Toronto's Aradia Ensemble are sparkling. There are some lively dance sequences for the pirates and Indians which could be performed separately. Don't expect any deep seriousness, but enjoy a vivid example of popular theatre in London in the years after Handel.
Overture to Polly: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3suu3yvi1o
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Franz Beck symphonies with Toronto Chamber Orchestra
Mallon records Beck symphonies:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XGff0Syxsk
Klaus Heymann’s Best of Naxos 2010 List
With over hundreds of CD releases, Klaus Heymann, owner of Naxos chooses his top 10 for 2010 and 2 of our Cds: Samuel Arnold's opera Polly and Franz Beck symphonies were on his list.
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Ottawa's Thirteen Strings names Kevin Mallon new music director
By SMAZEY TUE, APR 27 2010 CLASSICAL OTTAWA
(Conductor and violinist Kevin Mallon, new director of Ottawa's Thirteen Strings)
Toronto conductor and violinist Kevin Mallon, director of Canada's Aradia Ensemble and a former concertmaster with the French early-music group Les Arts Florissants, has been named director of Ottawa's Thirteen Strings orchestra.
http://communities.canada.com/ottawacitizen/blogs/classicalottawa/archive/2010/04/27/aradia-director-kevin-mallon-named-new-director-of-thirteen-strings.aspx
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Aradia Ensemble
performs on soundtrack of new Jim Carrey movie
Aradia Ensemble is featured on the soundtrack of the new Jim Carrey movie Yes Man. Excerpts from Handel's Water music conducted by Kevin Mallon can be heard alongside tracks by the Eels and even a song by Carrey himself!
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Nominated for Irish Times Theatre Awards 2009
Opera 2005/ Kevin Mallon
“The Opera 2005 chorus sounds enthusiastic if at times a little raw, and the conducting of Kevin Mallon has an expressive alertness and adaptability that more than compensates for some of the rough edges in the orchestral playing.”
Michael Dervin,
Irish Times 28 September 2008
“Three performances were
given in Cork's recently refurbished OPERA HOUSE, followed
by one in Limerick. The company's Belfast-born artistic
director, Kevin Mallon, was in the pit, and on the opening
night (September 23) he demonstrated a real feeling for the
powerful lines of Verdi's sombre creation, drawing
excellent playing from his orchestra.”
Ian Fox, Opera
Magazine February 2009
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Nominated for Juno Award
in Large Ensemble Category, 2009
Kevin Mallon Toronto Chamber Orchestra -
Haydn Symphonies 62, 107, 108
“Kevin Mallon sets ideal tempos, lets the winds color the music tellingly, and gets his players to give him precision without stiffness.”
Review by David
Hurwitz, Classics Today, November
2008
“For those of us used to
the Haydn canon consisting of 104 symphonies, this disc is
news, bumping the tally up to 108! The notes tell us that
the last two in this group are early works that predate
Haydn's employment at Esterhaza. The others are designated
as Symphonies A and B—all somewhat confusing. No matter:
the music is typical and lovely Haydn, and Maestro Mallon
certainly has a way with this repertoire... one of the
greatest bargains in recorded music history.”
Review by Giv
Cornfield, The New Recording, cliffsclassics.com, November
2008
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Mallon Hailed as “Canada’s Crown Prince of Period
Performance”
"Kevin Mallon is establishing himself very quickly as Canada’s crown prince of period performance. Not that we should forget his Irish roots or his work with the Cork Opera or even the fact that frequently he is invited to guest-conduct standard repertoire and contemporary music. It is, however, the music of the Baroque that Mr. Mallon delivers to our eager ears with great aplomb. Aradia Ensemble is a wonderful grouping of very talented musicians and Mallon’s recent artistic appointment as the director of Grand River Baroque Festival in Ayr, Ontario bodes well for a continuation of this trend. This recording of Handel’s oratorio, second in the minds of the admirers only toMessiah, is a good example of how carefully and sensitively these musicians handle the score. Moreover, the cast of mostly very young soloists provides a uniformly excellent vocal tone, with all of them performing this well known, well loved oratorio with enthusiasm and talent. Though considered a failure in Handel’s times, Israel in Egypt is anything but. Sure, it suffers the usual sins of a Baroque oratorio: repetitions, extensive borrowing from other works and even other composers (I guess today we would call the lengthy quote from Stradella’s Qual Prodigio plagiarism) – but it also delivers stirring and beautiful music, set to some of the most dramatic biblical episodes. Had it been written as an opera, rather than an oratorio, I am sure it would have been Handel’s greatest triumph. With the universally know libretto – 10 plagues, burning bush and parting of the Red Sea – great choruses and some of the best arias, it would have given Aïda a run for its money. As is, it is a great showcase for Aradia’s and Kevin Mallon’s abilities."
Robert Tomas, The
Wholenote Magazine July, 2008
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Mallon successfully concludes his third season as
Artistic Director of the Grand River Baroque Festival!
The festivities commenced with a concert illuminating the four main national styles of music in the 17th and 18th centuries: German, Italian, French and English. A talk from Mallon underlined the uniqueness of each approach, and a reading from Don Quixote brought the music alive for the audience. These Baroque works were compared with Fratres, the incredibly popular piece by modern-day Estonian composer Arvo Pärt. The largest concert of the weekend was a vocal and instrumental performance at Cambridge’s magnificent Central Presbyterian Church (a structure has seen the movements of the Grand River for more than a hundred years).
Kevin Mallon is looking forward to the Festival's future. He is keen to connect the festival to the international scene by having the great baroque musicians in the area perform with some of the finest from North America and abroad.
For more information visit www.grbf.ca