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Malcolm is Director of Music at the Yehudi Menuhin School, and a professor of Composition at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. He read music at Magdalene College, Cambridge before studying in Europe with both Nadia Boulanger and Gyorgy Ligeti. He was later awarded a Harkness Fellowship, spending two years at Stanford University, California. In 1995, a “portrait†concert of his music was given in Cologne, and in 2003 there was a 50th Birthday Concert of his music given in St. John’s, Smith Square, London.
Malcolm has many works to his name and is particularly known for his choral music and his pieces for young people. Making Music for narrator and orchestra was commissioned by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and KADDISH for 24 solo voices was written for the BBC Singers. A Hopeful Place was conducted by Lord Menuhin in the Royal Albert Hall, London and Singer’s children’s cantata DRAGONS (to poems by Nick Toczek) is soon to be published. Chamber works include Quartet for Strings, Nonet for Strings, a Piano Quartet ‘The Grammar of Hope’ and his recent Piano Trio.
(http://www.malcolmsinger.co.uk/Malcolm_Singer/Biography.html)
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