Kevin Mallon is an Irish classical conductor.
Kevin Mallon was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and studied in Chetham's School of Music in Manchester, United Kingdom, 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.[1]
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. With this early music group, and with the Toronto Chamber Orchestra, of which Mallon is the 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. Mallon also conducts the West Side Chamber Orchestra, based in New York City and is music director of Thirteen Strings, a chamber ensemble based in Ottawa, Canada.
In 2010, Mallon composed and conducted music for the Camelot TV series.