Sandi-Jo Malmon
Cello
Sandi-Jo Malmon is an active chamber music and orchestral performer, having made her Lincoln Center debut in 1991 as the cellist of the Boston Quartet. As a founding member of the Kaleidoscope Chamber Ensemble and the Aryaloka String Quartet, she performs extensively throughout New England.
She has concertized with a variety of ensembles taking her to the UK and Europe, most recently as a member of the Aryaloka String Quartet. She has been a tenured member of the Opera Saratoga orchestra since 1997. Ms. Malmon has recorded for numerous documentaries including The String Theory, a NOVA program on PBS. She has recorded for Blue Hill, North Star, Lakewest Records as well as Pamet River Recordings.
Ms. Malmon holds degrees from Oberlin, the New England Conservatory and the Longy School of Music. Her teachers have included the renowned cellists Paul Tobias and Richard Kapuscinski. Her chamber music coaches have included Eugene Lehner, Robert Koff, Raphael Hillyer and Louis Krasner. She serves as Librarian for Collection Development at the Loeb Music Library at Harvard University.
In 2021, Ms. Malmon and co-author Elizabeth Berndt won an International Association of Music Libraries Publication Award. The Vladimir Fédorov Award is given annually to the best article published in Fontes Artis Musicae in a given volume year. Additionally, they received the Richard S. Hill Award, (https://www.musiclibraryassoc.org/?HillAward) an annual award for the best article on music librarianship or article of a music-bibliographic nature, for their article, “Surveying Composers: Methods of Distribution, Discoverability, and Accessibility of Their Works and the Corresponding Impact on Library Collections,.” Fontes Artis Musicae 67, no. 2 (2020): pp. 81-98. They explored how libraries might be more responsive to the discovery and accessibility of contemporary composers’ output. The intent of the survey was to learn about composers’ methods of distribution, work formats, awareness of library collection practice, as well as interest in representation in a library.