1. Gareth Edmund Malone was born on 9 November 1975 and is an English choirmaster and broadcaster, self-described as an "animateur, presenter and populariser of choral singing".
21 Facts About Gareth Malone
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Gareth Malone is best known for his television appearances in programmes such as The Choir, which focus on singing and introducing choral music to new participants.
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Gareth Malone was born into a family of Irish descent as the only child of James and Sian Malone, who had met at their local Gilbert and Sullivan society.
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Gareth Malone's father, James Malone, grew up in Parkhead in Scotland in an Irish family, and was a bank manager.
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Gareth Malone sang with the Symphony Chorus of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and he studied drama at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, where he was in the university choir and composed music for theatre productions.
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Until December 2009, Gareth Malone worked for the London Symphony Orchestra at LSO St Luke's where he ran their youth choir and community choir.
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On 31 December 2009, Gareth Malone conducted the first New Year's Eve Twitter Community Choir performance of Auld Lang Syne.
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Gareth Malone asked his followers on Twitter, and friends on Facebook, to join in with the event.
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The project was filmed for a television series, Gareth Malone Goes to Glyndebourne and aired on the BBC on 1 July 2010.
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In May 2010, Gareth Malone was awarded the Freedom of the City of London by Nick Anstee, Lord Mayor of the City of London in recognition of his music education work in that city.
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In October 2023, Gareth Malone became the patron of the Canterbury Choral Society.
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In 2010 Gareth Malone presented a children's programme for CBBC, The Big Performance in which ten keen, but extremely shy, young singers took the opportunity to overcome their fears.
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In 2011, Malone's show Gareth Malone Goes to Glyndebourne won an International Emmy Award in the Best Arts Programme category.
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In 2017, Gareth Malone presented Pitch Battle on BBC One, which The Guardian described as a "new Saturday teatime singing contest".
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In March 2020, Gareth Malone announced an initiative titled the Great British Home Chorus, a new home choir for people internationally whilst everyone was stuck at home during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Gareth Malone revealed he had been in talks with the BBC about making another television programme.
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In July 2020, as a finale to the Great British Home Chorus, Gareth Malone orchestrated a choral version of You Are My Sunshine with over 11,000 singers taking part, accompanied by the London Symphony Orchestra.
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Gareth Malone was eliminated in the quarterfinals of the competition.
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In September 2022, Gareth Malone appeared in series 2 of The Masked Dancer as Cactus.
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Gareth Malone has written two books on the subject of choral singing.
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Gareth Malone's most recent title, Choir: Gareth Malone, is an account of the production of his television series The Choir.