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About Malcolm Dalglish
- Malcolm Dalglish (born August 14, 1952) is an American hammered dulcimer player and builder, composer, and choral director. A virtuoso performer on the hammer dulcimer, he is a former member of the folk/Celtic trio Metamora and has performed frequently with the percussionist Glen Velez.
- In addition to the dulcimer, Dalglish also plays the spoons and bones (both traditional American percussion instruments).
- Beginning in the mid-1970s he honed his playing at Hap's Irish Pub in Cincinnati in a duo with flutist and concertina player Grey Larsen.
- He also composes prolifically for choir, and many of his compositions are for choir with dulcimer accompaniment.
- He has received more than 50 commissions to compose for choirs around the world.
- He played the hammered dulcimer in the score for the 1981 film Tuck Everlasting.
- Several of his songs with the Ooolite choral group come from the poetic work of Wendell Berry. Dalglish attended Oberlin College and the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.
- He lives in Bloomington, Indiana, where his publishing company, Ooolitic Music, is based.
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