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Malcolm Dalglish
Malcolm Dalglish (born 1952) is a hammer dulcimer player and composer whose work draws on his diverse background in choir, theater, and folk music. He toured internationally with The American Boychoir School at age ten, graduated from The National Outdoor Leadership School at fifteen and later attended Oberlin College, where he joined a resident theater company and worked with Bill Irwin and Julie Taymor. While a music education student at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, he designed and built over sixty hammer dulcimers. Mr. Dalglish was a founding member of the popular folk trio Metamora and has fifteen albums out, including solo offerings on the Windham Hill Label. He has been commissioned to write over eighty compositions for various choirs around the globe.
Most of his work celebrates the beauty of the natural world: story ballads, mouth music, songs of trees, birds and animals, lullabies, laments, old hymns and dance songs. The American Boychoir, The St. Olaf Choir, The Indianapolis Children’s Choir, The Young Voices of Melbourne and other choirs throughout the land have commissioned his folk inspired music. In 1997 he formed The Ooolites, an engaging young group of singers. Their second CD, Hymnody of Earth, is a spiritual celebration of nature featuring the poetry of Kentucky-based environmentalist, farmer and writer Wendell Berry. Choirs throughout America, Australia, South Africa, and England have performed this full-length song cycle. His new vocal quartet, Ooodoo has a new CD titled Into the Sky. Nature author Scott Russell Sanders has this to say about the music on this CD: "If the spheres could sing, here is how they would sound. These elegant, jubilant hymns of praise carry us into the sky with birds and moon and stars, into the waters and woods and fields with every breathing thing. The voices of Ooodoo, a miracle of harmony, remind us what breath is for. Listen and rejoice." Mr. Dalglish spends summers touring with Ooolation!, his outdoor singing camp.
Malcolm Dalglish’s list of achievements and activities includes:
• The composition and publication of over 40 original instrumental works and 80 original choral works with Boosey & Hawkes, Plymouth Music, and his own publishing company, Ooolitic Music. His choral Works have been published in three volumes.
• Nationwide productions of his “Wild Wild Word Show” for family audiences
• Performances at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Smithsonian Institute, Kennedy Center, Kentucky Center for the Arts, Sydney Opera House, Ravinia Festival (Chicago), as well as appearances with National Public Radio (Prairie Home Companion, All Things Considered)
• Fifteen albums, recorded on labels such as Windham Hill, Rounder Records, Flying Fish, Sugar Hill, June Appal, Ooolitic Music
• The founding of his music publishing company, distributing music worldwide through a website
• The founding of the Camp Ooolation!, Inc., an outdoor singing camp for teenagers that is currently in its 9th season of operation.
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