David Mallamud (Composer)
is an Emmy-nominated composer and orchestrator whose songs, musicals, orchestral works, and arrangements have been performed by leading artists and ensembles. He is a MacDowell Fellow, Dramatists Guild Fellow, Leonard Bernstein Fellow at Tanglewood, two-time ASCAP Morton Gould Award recipient, Charles Ives Scholarship recipient, and a Fred Ebb, Jonathan Larson, and Richard Rodgers Award finalist. His music for Flight School: The Musical was lauded by Laurel Graeber of The New York Times as the shows biggest boon . . . worthy of bigger stages.Current projects include What Do You See, a new musical with book and lyrics by Craig Lucas and music by Mallamud Pandoras Jar, written with Janine Robledo, including the song Heights Unknown, which was named a 2026 Write Out Loud winner and Spittoonia on the Erie, written with Nathan Christensen and in development with Northern Sky Theater. Mallamud also wrote a song with Craig Lucas for his new play Eleanore.Mallamud has worked extensively with Mike Mills of R.E.M., arranging Millss Concerto for Rock Band and Violin and composing additional music for the project. Written for violinist Robert McDuffie, the concerto premiered with Mills, McDuffie, and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and has since been performed by major orchestras throughout the United States. Mallamud also collaborated with Mills and Chuck Leavell, keyboardist and musical director of the Rolling Stones, contributing arrangements and additional music to A Night of Georgia Music, a concert program featuring the concerto alongside new arrangements of Georgia-themed songs. Filmed for PBS, the program won an Emmy Award for best long-form arts/entertainment special and earned Mallamud, Mills, and Leavell an Emmy nomination in the composition/arranging category and is scheduled for a Carnegie Hall presentation in July 2026.. Mallamud and Mills continued their collaboration with R.E.M. Explored, a symphonic reimagining of R.E.M. songs premiered by the Atlanta Symphony O www.davidmallamud.com
