Historical
Piano Concerts Series
About
the Musicians
Malcolm Halliday
Pianist, organist and conductor Malcolm Halliday
has performed in the United States, Mexico and Europe, both as a
soloist, a conductor, and in collaboration with singers,
instrumentalists, and orchestra. As pianist, he has performed
frequently with historical pianos from museum and private collections,
including pianos from the Frederick Collection in concerts at Jordan
Hall and Faneuil Hall, Boston, and Mechanics Hall, Worcester, as well
as with an historical piano at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New
York.
A champion of more recent music, Malcolm Halliday can
also be heard in two recordings of music by the American composer Leo
Sowerby, including the solo album Impressions, featuring rare piano
music of this Chicago-based original, and available on the Albany
Records label. He is also heard on numerous other recordings,
including British art songs with tenor Stanley Wilson, and Schubert’s Winterreise
with bass-baritone Robert Osborne – a recording made with the Frederick
Collection’s Graf piano. As conductor, he appears in the Albany Records
recording The River of Love, an album devoted to Shaker music and settings of Shaker themes by contemporary composers.
A
Fellow of the American Guild of Organists, Malcolm Halliday recently
retired from his positions as Artistic Director of the Master Singers
of Worcester and Minister of Music at the First Congregational Church
in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, where he served for nearly thirty years.
Mr.
Halliday currently lives much of the year in San Miguel de Allende in
Guanajuato, Mexico, but returns to Massachusetts frequently to spend
time at his lake house in Ashburnham, and to continue concert work and
other performances in the New England region. In Mexico he has recently
undertaken mentoring and teaching young professional Mexican pianists
as they prepare for advanced educational opportunities. He has also
begun working with young professional Mexican singers, including
assisting in the grooming of 4 finalists in Mexico’s very first
Metropolitan Young Artist Auditions who went on to win prizes in the
regional auditions held in February in New Orleans.
This year,
in addition to performing with clarinetist Chester Brezniak, Halliday
is also accompanying recitals in New England with the Russian violinist
Yulia Zhuravleva, and the Worcester cellist Betsy Bronstein.
This
is Mr. Halliday’s twenty-fourth performance with a piano from the
Frederick Collection; ten on the present series, the rest at other
venues.
