Victoria Malawey

Victoria Malawey is a composer, singer-songwriter, and scholar based in the Twin Cities. Malawey teaches courses in music theory, composition, and gender and music at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota.

She has written music for mixed chamber and vocal ensembles, which have been performed at venues throughout the U.S. and internationally. Her song cycle for soprano, clarinet, and piano, Chansons Innocentes, was the 2017 winner of the International Alliance of Women in Music New Music Competition Patsy Lu Prize, and her Miniatures for solo piano was the second place winner of the 2016 New Ariel Piano Composition Competition.

Malawey was a 2018 Distinguished Fellow and recipient of The Lee and Margaret Echols Fellowship for Musicians for a two-week residency at the Hambidge Center Creative Residency Program. Recent commissions include pieces for the William Ferris Chorale, Open House Chicago, the Black Cedar Ensemble, the ARK Trio, soprano Emma Rose Lynn, and soprano Bethany Battafarano.

Jeanné Inc has published several of her compositions for woodwinds. Malawey studied composition with Robert Lombardo at Chicago Musical College at Roosevelt University and Sven-David Sandström at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University.

External Links:

victoriamalawey.com