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Malin Broman
Violin/Viola
Born in Kungsbacka, Sweden, Malin Broman began playing the violin at the age of five.
She studied with Lisbeth Vecchi and Milan Vitek before winning a scholarship to study with David Takeno at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. Early in her career, she won numerous competitions, including the Carl Nielsen International Violin Competition, and at the Washington International Competition for Strings she took both First Prize and the Audience Prize. Her third-prize-winning performance in the European Broadcasting Union Competition for Young Musicians was televised across Europe.
Malin has since established a successful solo career, performing with orchestras such as the Gothenburg Symphony, Copenhagen Phil, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, and the Swedish Radio Orchestra, collaborating with conductors including Neeme Järvi, Alan Gilbert, and Daniel Harding.
As a passionate chamber musician, she is a founding member of the Kungsbacka Piano Trio, which was selected for the BBC New Generation Artists Scheme and the European Concert Hall Organisation. The trio has performed at the Carnegie Hall, the Concertgebouw, the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Berliner Philharmonie, and the Schwetzinger Festspiele, with tours across Argentina, Uruguay, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada.
In 2001, she founded the Kungsbacka Chamber Music Festival, now called Change. From 2004 to 2010, she was a member of the Nash Ensemble, making her BBC Proms debut, touring extensively, and recording for Hyperion and Wigmore Hall Live. She co-founded the Stockholm Syndrome Ensemble to reimagine the concert experience and appears regularly in duo with her partner, Simon Crawford-Phillips.
In 2008, Malin was appointed concertmaster of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and has since performed as guest concertmaster with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, and the Philharmonia Orchestra. She is also in demand as musical director/soloist, working with the Tapiola Sinfonietta, the Scottish Ensemble, the Nordic Chamber Orchestra, the Trondheim Soloists, and the ACO Collective.
From 2015 to 2020, she was Artistic Director of Musica Vitae Chamber Orchestra and, since 2019, Artistic Director of the Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra, taking up the post of Musical Director of the Nordic Chamber Orchestra in 2025.
Malin has received numerous accolades, including the Halland Academy’s Award for Outstanding Cultural Achievement (2002), election to the Royal Swedish Academy of Music (2008), the Interpret Prize with the Kungsbacka Piano Trio, and H.M. The King’s Medal (2019). She has taught at the Academy of Music and Drama, University of Gothenburg, and served as Professor of Viola at the Edsberg Institute of Music.
Her performances have been broadcast widely, and she has recorded over 30 discs. She plays a 1709 Stradivarius violin on loan from the Järnåker Foundation, a Candi viola, and a Guarneri ‘del Gesù’ copy by Stephan von Baehr.