Liza Malamut
Newberry Consort Artistic Director Liza Malamut has a passion for bringing untold stories and universal themes to life through historical performance.
A trombonist, researcher, and educator throughout the United States and abroad, Liza has performed with premier period-instrument ensembles throughout North America. 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 all over the world, including Carnegie Hall, Washington National Cathedral, the BAM Center, Warsaw Philharmonic Hall, and the Chiesa di San Rocco. 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 and beyond.
A passionate teacher and researcher, Liza has presented masterclasses, 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 co-editor and contributor for the book Music and Jewish Culture in Early Modern Italy: New Perspectives with Rebecca Cypess and Lynette Bowring (Indiana University Press). Her recent article, “Europa Rossi: A Question of Identity,” appears in the peer-reviewed, open-access journal Min-Ad: Israel Studies in Musicology.
Liza holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Trombone Performance from Eastman School of Music, where she studied trombone with John Marcellus, and a Master of Music degree from Boston University, where she studied with Don Lucas. She earned her Doctor of Musical Arts degree 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 eighty-eight solo etudes for trombone transcribed from historical sources. She currently teaches historical trombone at Indiana University.