Victoria Malawey is a composer, songwriter, and scholar based in the Twin Cities and Professor of Music at Macalester College where they teach courses in music theory, ear training,
songwriting, gender and music, and cover songs. Malawey has written music for mixed chamber and vocal ensembles, which have been performed at venues throughout the U.S. and
internationally. Driven by the belief that art makes the world a better place and fortifies community, Malawey strives to create music that soothes and heals, provides catharsis from
pain, and articulates the ineffable aspects of the human condition. Malawey’s choral piece On Dark Earth won the Uncommon Music Festival 2020 Composer Competition and was named top
finalist for the 2019 Voices 21C Call-for-Scores, their song cycle Chansons Innocentes won the 2017 International Alliance of Women in Music Patsy Lu Prize, and their Miniatures for solo
piano was the second-place winner of the 2016 New Ariel Piano Composition Competition. Past commissions include pieces for 10th Wave Chamber Music Collective, Red Cedar Chamber
Music, MPLS (imPulse), the Thirsty Ears Audio Tour, the Sound of Silent Film, the William Ferris Chorale, Open House Chicago, the Black Cedar Trio, and the ARK Trio. Malawey has completed
artist residencies at Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts and Sciences (Rabun Gap, GA), Dorland Mountain Arts Colony (Temecula, CA), Willapa Bay AiR (Oysterville, WA), I-Park (East
Haddam, CT), and Composing in the Wilderness (Denali, AK). Malawey’s monograph, A Blaze of Light in Every Word: Analyzing the Popular Singing Voice won the 2023 Wallace Berry Prize given by the Society for Music Theory. An enthusiastic pedagogue, Malawey is the author of an online open educational resource titled Multimodal Musicianship. More at victoriamalawey.com.