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Composition Bio:Although Malina has always actively improvised, she did not begin to approach the art of writing it down until auditioning for the Perpich Center for Arts Education Arts High School. After high school, she continued studying composition at the Eastman School of Music while pursuing a composition and cello performance major. Her teachers included David Liptak, Augusta Read Thomas, and Sydney Hodkinson. During her four years at Eastman, nearly 20 of her pieces were premiered. Following undergrad work, Malina attended The Juilliard School where she began working and collaborating with dancers and choreographers. She has had pieces premiered at Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Juilliard Theater, and MASS MoCA, and composed for Jody Oberfelder Dance Projects, airelise, Doorknob Dance Company, Laura Flowers, and Dodge Dance Company, among others. Malina scored the dance film LineAge, which has played at numerous film festivals around the world, and received multiple premieres by new music choir C4. She has been commissioned to write for In Extensio, Cadillac Moon Ensemble, Janus Trio, Rebecca Danard, and many others. In 2008 she was a Bang on a Can Composition Fellow where she had the opportunity to premiere her own work as well as perform the new works of others. She has curated, produced and performed in four full-length concerts in New York City, promoting live music of her own and others in collaboration with dancers and choreographers.
Commissions: Malina specializes in writing pieces for unique individuals and groups making personal strengths, desires and eccentricities an integral part of the piece. She enjoys the collaborative process and depends on the ideas of others to challenge and inspire her.
| Choral and Vocal Music | ||
|---|---|---|
| Displaced for SSAATTBB choir + CD |
Written for C4, March 2010 Performed May 2010 | 3½ min |
| All the Pretty Little Horses (text: trad.) for Middle School choir & strings |
Written August 2009 Performed January 2010 | 2 min |
| Tres Canciones del Corazón (text: Lorca) for SATB choir |
(rewrite of Siete Canciones, December 2008) | |
| Raindrop Diaries for SSAATTBB choir |
Written for C4, July 2008 Performed February 2009 | 8 min |
| Devastation for SATB choir & soloists |
Written for C4, July 2008 Performed November 2008 | 3 min |
| Evolution of a Relationship (text: various Spanish poets) for 3 Mezzos & Baritone |
Written for Bang on a Can Fellowship June 2008 Performed April 2009 and July 2008 | 12 min |
| Eine Kleine Morning Music for SATB choir + coffee grinder/spatulas/pans etc |
Written for C4, December 2007 Performed June 2008 | 3½ min |
| Sea Shanty for SATB choir |
Written for C4, July 2007 Performed November and October 2007 | 3 min |
| des choses muettes (text: Baudelaire) for 3 vocalists & Cello |
Written for Franny, Sam & David summer 2007 Performed December 2007 and February 2008 | 11 min |
| On the Shortest Day of the Year (winter solstice song) for SATB choir & cello |
Written summer 2005 | 3 min |
| Love Cycle (text: Neruda) for singing pianist |
Written May 2002 | 8 min |
| Colorcycle for Soprano, Mezzo & Fortepiano |
Written April 2000 Performed November 2000 | 19 min |
| Siete Canciones (text: Lorca) for Countertenor (or Mezzo), Tenor & Baritone |
Written January 1999 Performed April 1999 and May 2007 (mvt. 1) | 14 min |
| Chamber and Instrumental Music | ||
| Hṁ for Violin & Cello |
Written for Zentripetal January 2011 To be performed April 24, 2011 | 1 min |
| Superstars! for Middle School String Orchestra |
Written for Packer Orch, June 2010 Performed in Carnegie Hall, February 2011 | 1 min |
| Interruption for Clarinet in A & Piano |
Written for Jennifer Snyder, August 2009 | 5½ min |
| Five Sketches for singing Flute, Violin, Cello, Marimba |
Written for Cadillac Moon Ensemble, August 2009 Performed October 2009 | 6 min |
| Lucidless Nightmare for singing Flute & singing Cellist |
Written for Roberta Michel, February 2009 Performed April 2009 | 5 min |
| Peanut Butter and Jammm for E♭ Clarinet, Alto Flute & Vibraphone |
Written for In Extensio, November 2008 Performed June/August/September 2009 | 4½ min |
| Being Here for looped or prerecorded Clarinet & Bass Clarinet |
Written for Rebecca Danard, August 2008 Performed October 2008 | 8 min |
| Etches Four Spheres for Flute, Viola &Amp; Harp |
Written for Janus Trio, summer 2003 Performed April 2004 | 11 min |
| Journey for solo Cello |
Written summer 2001 Performed in Carnegie’s Weill Hall, April 2002 | 5 min |
| Vermillion and Jung for singing piano trio (prepared piano) |
Written for Elisabeth Motley, November 2001 Performed in Alice Tully Hall January 2002 and Juilliard Theater May 2002 | 6 min |
| String Quartet No. 2 |
Written Spring 2001 Performed May & July 2001 | 17 min |
| Impressions of Dawn for full Orchestra |
Written November 2000 Performed May 2001 | 6 min |
| Return to Tranquility for solo Guitar |
Written for Ben Altman, November 2000 Performed April 2001 | 15 min |
| Suite in Time – Past, Present and Future for solo scordatura Violin |
Written August 2000 Performed February 2010 (1st mvt.) | 15 min |
| Zodiac for full Orchestra |
Written December 1999 | 15 min |
| And There is Living … for Violin & Bayan |
Written for Jennifer D’Alessio October 1999 Performed April 2000 | 10 min |
| Sonata for Hanno and Kris for Cello & Fortepiano |
Written August 1999 Performed November 2000 and May 2003 (1st mvt.) | 15 min |
| Sonata for Marimba & Violin |
Written spring 1999 Performed April 1999 (mvt. 1/2) and February 2000 (mvt. 3) | 12 min |
| for ’Cello a communion for Cellist & Speaker |
Written October 1998 Performed December 1998 | 7 min |
| Meanderthal for small chamber Orchestra & Guitar |
Written September 1998 Performed April 1999 | 15 min |
| The Dawn of a New Day for Middle School Orchestra |
Written July 1998 Performed November 1998 & May 2010 (1st mvt.) | 7 min |
| Emptiness for Bass Trombone & two Tubas |
Written March 1998 Performed November 1998 | 3 min |
| Suite for solo Guitar |
Written February 1998 Performed April 1998 | 8 min |
| Time Traveling through a Black Hole for String Quartet or String Orchestra |
Written 1997 and 1998 Performed May 1998 and November 1998 | 8 min |
| Theatrical Works (requiring significant movement) | ||
| Lost in Transmission for two acting vocalists & prepared piano |
Written for Phillip & Mark, August 2008 Performed October 2008 | 8 min |
| 1# umop apisdn #1 for right side up and upside down flute |
Written June 2008 Performed July 2008 | 4 min |
| Ghost Trio for 3 musicians playing Violin, Cello, Piano and singing |
Written December 2006 Performed February 2007 | 8 min |
| Love Song # 12 for Baritone/Alto, Cello, Melody & Luke |
Written September 2006 Performed November 2006 | 5 min |
| Experiment for Dancer, Piano & Keyboard |
Written for Melody & Luke, December 2005 Performed February 2006 | 11 min |
| Tri-Cella-Dea for Cello 4 hands & 2 other cellists |
Written for Ben, December 2004 Performed March 2005 | 7½ min |
| The Schizophrenic Three-Legged Dog for Cello, Fortepiano (prepared) & Dancer |
Written February 2003 Performed 4 times in spring 2003 | 5 min |
| Halba Treppa for dancing Violin, Cello, Bass & 3 singing dancers in collaboration with Jane Sato |
Written fall 2002 Performed in Alice Tully Hall, February 2003 | 7½ min |
| Multitracked Works and Music for Dance | ||
| Charing Cross: Cartridge | Written for video artist & photographer Lane Cooper for Charing Cross: Cartridge, October 2010 | 4:20 |
| Charing Cross: Newark | Written for Lane Cooper for Charing Cross: Newark, October 2010 | 2:29 |
| Avec Trois Cello quartet or CD |
Written for one track to be played live while dancing Performed August 2004 | 5:23 |
| Wark CD |
Written for Dodge Dance Company first performance series, May 2004 | 6:19 |