What is Music in May?
MiM 08 will bring renowned musicians to Santa Cruz in a weekend full of concerts to be offered free of charge to all. Our intent is to expand and broaden the audience of classical music, impact youth, and increase awareness and develop relationships with other local non-profit organizations serving the Santa Cruz community.
Roy Malan
Guest Artist
Violinist Roy Malan hails from South Africa, where his mother gave him his first violin lesson when he was three. He went on to study in London at the Royal Academy of Music and then moved to the United States to attend Juilliard and Curtis, where he was a member of Efrem Zimbalist’s final class. Other teachers have included Ivan Galamian, Oscar Shumsky, and Yehudi Menuhin. After graduating, Malan joined the faculty at Ithaca College before moving to the West Coast, where for more than 30 years he has been concertmaster for the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra and a lecturer at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Malan is also a founding member of the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players. After arriving in California, Malan kept in constant contact with Zimbalist, assisting him by hand-copying parts for his compositions, editing his revision of the Bach solo sonatas, and working on a biography, Efrem Zimbalist, A Life. In his will, Zimbalist bequeathed to Malan his favorite French bows. Malan is the founder and director of the Telluride Chamber Music Festival in Colorado. He has recorded widely and his solo tours have taken him throughout the United States, Europed, Latin America, Asia, and Australia, including recent performances in Paris and at Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, and the Library of Congress.