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Kevin Mallon is a Northern Irish classical conductor, who now lives in Howth, Ireland. ==Biography and career== Kevin Mallon was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey but at an early age he went to live in Belfast, Northern Ireland and became a student at St. Malachy's College. He won a scholarship to Chetham's School of Music in Manchester, England, where he was influenced by John Eliot Gardiner. He later studied composition with Peter Maxwell Davies at Dartington College of Arts, and studied violin at the Royal Northern College of Music. Mallon played violin with orchestras such as the Hallé Orchestra and the BBC Philharmonic, and later became concertmaster for Le Concert Spirituel and Les Arts Florissants. He performed with these groups around the world, in many European countries, in the United States and Canada, and in Asia. In 1993 he accepted positions with the University of Toronto and Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra. In 1996, Mallon founded the Aradia Ensemble, of which he is the music director.〔(Aradia Ensemble website ), aradia.ca; accessed 26 May 2015.〕 With this early music group, and with the Toronto Chamber Orchestra, of which Mallon is music director, he has recorded more than fifty CDs for the Naxos label, including works by Buxtehude, Charpentier, Handel, Lully, Purcell and Vivaldi. Mallon also conducts operas, working with the contemporary opera company Opera Anonymous, and with other orchestras, with whom he has conducted operas by Handel, Mozart and Vivaldi, among others. From 2004 to 2009, he was artistic director of Ireland's Opera 2005, formed to celebrate Cork's tenure as European Cultural Capital. This company had considerable success, being nominated for Three Irish Times Theatre Awards. • 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kevin Mallon」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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