Malcolm Hawkins
composer

Malcolm Hawkins (b. 1944, Porto). Portuguese-born British-American composer of mostly orchestral, chamber and choral music that has been performed across the Americas and Europe very successfully. He is also active as a choral conductor.

Mr. Hawkins studied at the Royal Academy of Music, and was a professor there from 1979-88. He graduated in 1966 and subsequently studied at the Salzburg Mozarteum with César Bresgen. His music was then broadcast on ORF (and later in Germany), and he won the competition Das Neue Lied.

He has received commissions from the Cranleigh School, the Lichfield Festival, the New Hampshire String Teachers' Association, the Round Top Festival (Texas), St. Paul's Church (London), and the Vaughan Williams Trust, among others. He has written for such soloists as oboist Simon Dent and pianist James Dick and for ensembles, such as soloists from the Bayerische Staatsoper, the BBC Concert Orchestra and the Hungarian Chamber Symphony Orchestra.

His main publishers are Alliance Music (Houston), Bardic Edition (Aylesbury, UK), E.C. Schirmer (Boston), the Keturi Verlag (Germany), Stainer and Bell (London), and United Music Publishers (London).

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