"Malcolm Hawkins graduated from the Royal Academy of Music, and was subsequently awarded a scholarship to study at the Mozarteum, Salzburg, with Cesar Bresgen, where he won an international song competition Das Neue Lied with 4 Songs for Baritone, Saxophone and Piano. These and a solo piano work were broadcast on Austrian Radio, and his wind quintet was performed in Salzburg and Vienna. He is a pianist and organist and formerly worked as a double-bass player. He has taught at the RAM, and various schools in England and the USA. He received a fellowship to study at the Kodaly Institute in Hungary. Commissions have come from festivals including Lichfield, the Round Top Festival in Texas, for which he wrote Variations and Fugue for Piano and Orchestra, premiered and recorded by James Dick, the Hungarian Chamber Orchestra under Alberto Santana in Budapest, and various college choirs. Barry Singer and the Arlington Chamber Choir commissioned the cantata Martha and Lazarus."