| Amalie Malling was born in 1948 in
Lübeck, Germany to Danish parents. She began playing the piano at six, and when the
family moved to Denmark in 1961 she took lessons from Herman D. Koppel until 1968. After
her debut at seventeen in the Tivoli Concert Hall in Copenhagen, she continued her studies
with Hans Leygraf at the State High School for Music and Theatre in Hanover from 1968-72
and with Georg Vasarhéyi at the Jutland Academy of Music from 1972-3. She has also been
on several trips to study with Alfred Brendel. Since 1972, when Amalie won First Prize in
the Nordic Music competition, she has engaged in extensive concert activities as a soloist
and chamber musician in Denmark as well as the rest of Europe, the USA, Canada and Japan.
She has won many music prizes, including the Gade Scholarship, the Performer's Prize of
the Music Critics' Circle and the Tagea Brandt Travelling Scholarship. In recent years
Amalie Malling has worked regularly in partnership with the cellist Morten Zeuthen, and
with the Kontra Quartet with whom she has recorded a Heise CD with, among other works, his
Piano Quintet (dacapo DCCD 9113).
Amalie Malling's solo repertoire is very wide ranging, from Viennese Classicism through
the Romantics to contemporary music. Furthermore she has recorded a CD of piano music by
Shumann, and a CD with the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Michael Schonwandt, of the
piano concertos of Schumann and Schoenberg. |
