Roy Malan

Roy Malan studied in London with Yehudi Menuhin and then at Juilliard and the Curtis Institute with
Ivan Galamian and Efrem Zimbalist. He has been concertmaster and solo violinist with the San Francisco
Ballet Orchestra since 1974 and a member of the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players. For twenty
years Malan was concertmaster of both Sinfonia San Francisco and the San Francisco Chamber Symphony
and a featured soloist on the latter's European tours. He is on the faculty at the University of California,
Santa Cruz. Mr. Malan is also founder and co-director with pianist Robin Sutherland of the Telluride
Chamber Music Festival. He has received critical acclaim for concerto appearances at New York's Lincoln
Center, Washington's Kennedy Center, the Paris Opera and the Edinburgh Festival. He has recorded
extensively with Robin Sutherland, the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players and as a concerto
soloist. The author of a biography on the late Efrem Zimbalist, Malan was honored in 1982 by Zimbalist's
dedication of a specially orchestrated version of his "Coq d'or Fantasy." He was further honored by the
bequest of the great Russian violinist's collection of favorite bows.

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