Malcolm Merriweather, DMA
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GRAMMY-nominated conductor Malcolm J. Merriweather is Director of the New York Philharmonic Chorus and Music Director of New York City’s The Dessoff Choirs and Orchestra. He is a Professor of Music and the Tania León Endowed Chair at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York.
Merriweather opens the 2024-2025 season conducting works of Mary Lou Williams at Disney Concert Hall for Solange Knowles’ series, Glory to Glory (A Revival For Spiritual and Devotional Art). At the historic Town Hall, he conducts Brahms’s Requiem for the centennial celebration of the Dessoff Choirs with soloists Will Liverman, baritone, and Joélle Harvey, soprano. He leads the Buffalo Philharmonic in performances of Paul Moravec’s Sanctuary Road and Margaret Bonds’s Montgomery Variations. His season concludes with performances of Verdi’s Requiem at Trinity Church, Wall Street.
He is a sought-after interpreter of symphonic choral works, most recently conducting grand performances of Bach’s St. John Passion, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, and Handel’s Messiah. In addition to core symphonic works, he is known for the world premiere recordings of The Ballad of the Brown King, Credo, and Simon Bore the Cross by Margaret Bonds (AVIE Records) with The Dessoff Choirs and Orchestra. As a frequent guest conductor, he has conducted the Choir of Trinity Wall Street, the Novus Orchestra, and the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra.
Ensembles under his baton have performed at venues that include Disney Concert Hall, The Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Madison Square Garden, Brooklyn Academy of Music Westminster Abbey, and at the Vatican before Pope Francis. At the invitation of Solange Knowles, he joined the interdisciplinary studio and creative agency, Saint Heron, for performances with Voices of Harlem and The Clark Sisters in Glory to Glory: A Revival of Devotional Art.
Dr. Merriweather has earned degrees from Eastman, Manhattan School of Music, and Syracuse University and was a fellow at Tanglewood. Connect with him on Instagram @maestroweather and at malcolmjmerriweather.com