Malin Broman

Malin Broman began playing the violin at the age of five in her native town of Kungsbacka, Sweden.

In 1997, she began her Advanced Instrumental Studies at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London, having won a scholarship to study with David Takeno.  She graduated in 2001 with a Masters degree in Chamber Music.

Representing Sweden, Malin was a prizewinner at the 1994 Eurovision Broadcasting Union Competition in Warsaw, broadcast throughout Europe. In the same year, she gained the First Prize and the Audience Prize in the Washington International Competition for Strings, Washington DC.  In 1996, she was Second Prizewinner in the Carl Nielsen International Violin Competition in Odense, Denmark and four years later won the Paper de Music Competition in Capellades, Spain.

Malin has performed as a soloist with many orchestras, including the Gothenburg Symphony, Copenhagen Philharmonic, BBC Scottish Symphony, Academy of St Martin-in-the Fields and the Swedish Radio Orchestra, working with such conductors as Heinrich Schiff, Paul Daniel, Joseph Swenson and Neeme Järvi.

Malin is a founding member of the Kungsbacka Piano Trio, which was selected in 2000 for the BBC New Generation Artists Scheme. In 2003, the trio made its Carnegie Hall debut and appeared at major European Concert Halls, including the Concertgebouw, Vienna Konzerthaus and Cologne Philharmonie.  Other concerts have included debuts at the Berlin Philharmonie, Schleswig-Holstein and Schwetzinger Festspiele, residencies at Lofoten and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern festivals and tours of Argentina and Uruguay and of Australia and New Zealand.  The trio has recorded for the NAXOS and BIS labels.

As a chamber musician, Malin has also given recitals in Washington DC, Ostrava, Copenhagen and has performed at the Edinburgh International Festival with the Leopold String Trio and in London's Queen Elizabeth Hall with the Belcea Quartet.  She has also performed as a violist on BBC Radio 3, Swedish Radio and at the Båstad Festival and London's Wigmore Hall and Queen Elizabeth Hall.

In 2004, she became a member of the Nash Ensemble and made her debut at the BBC Proms.  The Ensemble's 2007/8 season includes concerts in Germany, residence at St Magnus Festival and CD recording for Hyperion, in 2008/9 recordings for Hyperion, concerts in France, Germany and USA and regular appearances in Wigmore Hall and BBC Radio 3.

From 1999 to 2007, Malin was a member of the teaching staff at Gothenburg Conservatory of Music, where she placed particular emphasis on the ergonomics of string playing.  Currently she is a Professor of Strings at London's Guildhall School of Music & Drama.

In 2007 she was appointed leader of the Swedish Radio Orchestra.

Malin was presented in 2002 with the Halland Academy's Award for Outstanding Cultural Achievement.

She plays a 1748 G. Gagliano violin, generously loaned by the Järnåker Foundation.