NewMusicSA
  • Home
  • About
    • About
    • Team
    • Contact & Social Media stream
    • PAIA
    • Newsletter subscription
  • WNMD
    • wnmd-call-for-works
  • Videos
  • News and current events
    • Newsletter subscription
    • Oluzayo Music Festival
    • Afrikosmos - Antony Gray plays Michael Blake's new work
    • SA New Music Concert - NWU & NewMusicSA
  • Partners
    • ISCM
    • Ars Electronica
  • Members
    • Featured Members >
      • Maike Watson
      • John Simon
      • Malcolm Dedman
    • Members' News
  • Festivals and Events Archive
    • Digital Indaba '21
    • National Arts Festival
    • Indaba >
      • Indaba 2019 >
        • Programme
        • Performers >
          • Waldo Alexander
          • Marc Duby
          • Morné van Heerden
          • Luc Houtkamp
          • Jill Richards
          • Lukas Ligeti
          • Jonathan Crossley
          • Sazi Dlamini
          • Thabang Tabane
        • Composers >
          • Amy Crankshaw
          • Malcolm Dedman
          • Christo Jankowitz
          • Diale Mabitsela
          • Jaco Meyer
          • Bernett Mulungo
          • Douglas Scott
          • Kevin Volans
        • The Works
      • Indaba 2018 >
        • Indaba 2018 videos
        • 5 October - 'Transcript'
        • 6 October - Piano Recital by Dominic Daula
        • 7 October 2018 - Chamber Concert 'Tribute to Mandela'
        • Flyers
        • Poster
      • Indaba 2017 >
        • De Profundis - Joanna Wicherek
        • With Love: a renaissance and a dove’s feather
        • Film
        • Art by Tshidzo
        • Dwelling in dissonance
        • Blomme van die Drakensberge
        • Songs of South Africa
        • Bulletin Launch
      • Indaba 2015
      • Indaba 2007
      • Indaba 2000
    • Unyazi >
      • Unyazi 2016
      • Unyazi 2014
    • Soundings >
      • Kreun
  • Bulletin
    • Issue 18
    • Issue 17 >
      • Interview: Matthijs van Dijk (with Ansie de Swardt)
    • Issue 16
    • Issue 15
    • Issue 14
    • Issue 13
    • Issue 11/12
    • 2008/09 >
      • 20010/11
    • 2006/07
    • 2004/05
    • 2002/03

Picture
Malcolm Dedman
 
Malcolm Dedman was born in London, England, on 3 November 1948. Fascinated at an early age by his mother’s piano playing, she taught him to play when he was around 5 years of age. Once Malcolm had a basic understanding, he found himself improvising alongside his regular practice. By the age of 12, he realised that he wanted to write some of these ideas down, so this became the starting point to his career as a composer.

During his teens, he listened to a lot of new music and basically taught himself to write, learning from what he heard. For him, writing music was not a choice, it was something he had to do. With minimal input from other musicians, he won two prizes: a setting of the Magnificat (in English) for the ‘Free Church Choir Union’ and a Sonatina for the Brent Music and Dance Festival, a work which was later to form the first movement of his Piano Sonata No. 1 – Restoration.

Despite the urge to write music, his studies lead him to science, and he graduated in 1971 with an Honours Degree in Applied Physics. He earned his living for the next twenty years as an electronic design engineer with various companies in the UK. Shortly after starting work, he studied composition informally with Patric Standford, who was teaching at the time in the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. This helped to establish a more personal style and to become more practical in his approach to composition.
Even though Malcolm won other awards and secured performances of his music, it was not until 2004 that he was in a position to pursue a degree in music. To this end, he studied for his Masters in Composing Concert Music at the Thames Valley University in London (now the University of West London), graduating with distinction in 2005.

He considers his compositional style to be an individual one, benefitting from an in-depth understanding of twentieth century trends, ranging from serialism to quasi-aleatoric techniques. He now adopts an individual ‘post-modern’ idiom, based on original modes, that is very personal in approach. Although his music owes much to the music of Messiaen and Bartók – composers he has always respected and admired – it also integrates music by many other composers as well as music from different cultures. He believes in writing music that speaks directly to the audience, conveying a purposeful message, in a style that is appropriate to this century and without compromising musical quality.

More recently, Malcolm has received performances in England, Ireland, France, Bulgaria, Italy, Macedonia, Slovakia, USA, Brazil, Mexico, Japan, South Korea, New Zealand and South Africa. Many of these performances have been received well by audiences and critics, including two excellent reviews by Anthony Payne.

In 2004, he was married to a South African lady and moved to that country in 2007. 

Most of his scores are self-published, under the name ‘Misty Mountain Music’, along with two CDs: Tranquillity Zone, containing music for total relaxation, meditation and peace; and Piano Showcase: containing his music for piano solo and four hands. Some of his music can be heard at http://www.reverbnation.com/malcolmdedman.

His personal website is http://www.musiciansgallery.com/start/composers/dedman/malcolm.htm
Picture
Picture
omt.org.za rupertmuseum.org samro.org.za samrofoundation.org.za nac.org.za act.org.za

Picture
  • Home
  • About
    • About
    • Team
    • Contact & Social Media stream
    • PAIA
    • Newsletter subscription
  • WNMD
    • wnmd-call-for-works
  • Videos
  • News and current events
    • Newsletter subscription
    • Oluzayo Music Festival
    • Afrikosmos - Antony Gray plays Michael Blake's new work
    • SA New Music Concert - NWU & NewMusicSA
  • Partners
    • ISCM
    • Ars Electronica
  • Members
    • Featured Members >
      • Maike Watson
      • John Simon
      • Malcolm Dedman
    • Members' News
  • Festivals and Events Archive
    • Digital Indaba '21
    • National Arts Festival
    • Indaba >
      • Indaba 2019 >
        • Programme
        • Performers >
          • Waldo Alexander
          • Marc Duby
          • Morné van Heerden
          • Luc Houtkamp
          • Jill Richards
          • Lukas Ligeti
          • Jonathan Crossley
          • Sazi Dlamini
          • Thabang Tabane
        • Composers >
          • Amy Crankshaw
          • Malcolm Dedman
          • Christo Jankowitz
          • Diale Mabitsela
          • Jaco Meyer
          • Bernett Mulungo
          • Douglas Scott
          • Kevin Volans
        • The Works
      • Indaba 2018 >
        • Indaba 2018 videos
        • 5 October - 'Transcript'
        • 6 October - Piano Recital by Dominic Daula
        • 7 October 2018 - Chamber Concert 'Tribute to Mandela'
        • Flyers
        • Poster
      • Indaba 2017 >
        • De Profundis - Joanna Wicherek
        • With Love: a renaissance and a dove’s feather
        • Film
        • Art by Tshidzo
        • Dwelling in dissonance
        • Blomme van die Drakensberge
        • Songs of South Africa
        • Bulletin Launch
      • Indaba 2015
      • Indaba 2007
      • Indaba 2000
    • Unyazi >
      • Unyazi 2016
      • Unyazi 2014
    • Soundings >
      • Kreun
  • Bulletin
    • Issue 18
    • Issue 17 >
      • Interview: Matthijs van Dijk (with Ansie de Swardt)
    • Issue 16
    • Issue 15
    • Issue 14
    • Issue 13
    • Issue 11/12
    • 2008/09 >
      • 20010/11
    • 2006/07
    • 2004/05
    • 2002/03