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Malcolm Lowe

Malcolm Lowe marked his 20th season as Boston Symphony Orchestra Concertmaster with the 2004-2005 season. In 1984 he became the 10th concertmaster in the orchestra's history, and only it's third since 1920. As the orchestra's principal first violinist, he also performs with the Boston Symphony Chamber Players. Mr. Lowe is equally at home as an orchestral player, chamber musician, solo recitalist, and teacher. He appears frequently as soloist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall and at Tanglewood, and he has returned many times to his native Canada for guest appearances as a soloist with orchestras including those of Toronto, Montreal, and the National Arts Centre of Ottawa. Mr. Lowe is a faculty member at the Tanglewood Music Center, the New England Conservatory of Music, and Boston University.

Prior to his Boston appointment, he was concertmaster of the Orchestre Symphonique de Québec. The recipient of many awards, he was one of the top laureate winners in the 1979 Montreal International Violin Competition. Born to musical parents - his father a violinist, his mother a vocalist - in Hamiota, Manitoba, where he was raised on a farm, Malcolm Lowe moved with his family to Regina, Saskatchewan, when he was nine. There he studied at the Regina Conservatory of Music with Howard Leyton-Brown, former concertmaster of the London Philharmonic. He also studied with Ivan Galamian at the Meadowmount School of Music and at the Curtis Institute of Music.

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