Merrill Hall, MU301
Liza Malamut is adjunct lecturer in music in historical trombones at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music.
She regularly appears as a trombonist, educator, and presenter throughout the United States and abroad. She is artistic director of The Newberry Consort, a Chicago-based organization that creates accessible and historically informed performances of Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque music. She is also a founding member of Incantare, an ensemble of violins and sackbuts formed to highlight music of lesser-known and marginalized composers and their contemporaries in early modern Europe.
Malamut has performed with Trinity Baroque Orchestra, Mercury Chamber Orchestra, Tafelmusik, Opera Atelier, the Handel and Haydn Society, Dark Horse Consort, Boston Camerata, Piffaro, the Folger Consort, Opera Lafayette, TENET, Apollo’s Fire, and many other ensembles. Her playing can be heard on the Musica Omnia, Naxos, Hyperion, New Focus Recordings, and George Blood Audio labels. She has performed at international venues around the world, including Carnegie Hall, Washington National Cathedral, the BAM Center, Warsaw Philharmonic Hall, and the Chiesa di San Rocco.
A passionate teacher and researcher, Malamut has presented master classes, lecture recitals, and papers at conferences and institutions throughout the country. Her academic work was supported by an American Dissertation Completion Fellowship from the American Association of University Women, and she is a coeditor and contributor for the recently published book Music and Jewish Culture in Early Modern Italy: New Perspectives with Rebecca Cypess and Lynette Bowring (Indiana University Press).
Malamut earned a Bachelor of Music in Trombone Performance degree from the Eastman School of Music, where she studied with John Marcellus, and a Master of Music degree from Boston University, where she studied with Don Lucas. She earned a Doctor of Musical Arts in Historical Performance from Boston University, where she studied with Greg Ingles. Her dissertation, a method book for modern trombonists, integrates historical techniques with mainstream playing and introduces 88 solo etudes for trombone transcribed from historical sources.