David Malone is a guitarist based in Hobart, Tasmania. He performs throughout Australia as a solo recitalist and chamber musician and has performed with the Adelaide, Tasmanian and Canberra Symphony Orchestras in Australia and the Royal Northern Sinfonia and the Cambridge University Jazz Orchestra in the UK. He currently performs with the early music group Sequenza with Quin Thomson, Brett Rutherford and Matt Goddard and with the Australian Guitar Trio with Gareth Koch and Oliver Marshall.
David has a strong interest in new music for guitar and many works have been written for him by composers including Russell Gilmour, Maria Grenfell, Don Kay and Raffaele Marcellino. He has himself composed for guitar including the music for the UNESCO film ‘Welcoming Schools’.
David was featured in the SBS program A Fork in Australia and his performances have been broadcast by ABC Classic FM and ABC Radio National.
David’s solo CD Fretsongs for the Tall Poppies label received an Australian Classical Music Award in 2007 and a five-star rating in Limelight, Australia’s classical music magazine.
David Malone began learning guitar in Sydney and completed his undergraduate music studies as a student of Timothy Kain at the Canberra School of Music. He subsequently performed in masterclasses in Finland with Leo Brouwer, Sharon Isbin and Costas Cotsiolis and in England with John Duarte and Stepan Rak.
David was a scholar student in the 30th annual Música en Compostela, a course established by Andrés Segovia in Santiago de Compostela for performers of Spanish music. David holds undergraduate degrees in Music (CSM) and Commerce (UNSW) and Masters degrees in Music (Tas) and Tertiary Education Management (Melb).
David Malone teaches privately and at the University of Tasmania. He is married to composer Maria Grenfell and they live with their two children in Hobart, Tasmania.
Photo: Anthony McKee
Guitar: Allan Bull