About Malene Rigtrup
Malene is associate professor at The Royal Academy of Music and teaches choir leading and vocal arranging. On RAMA Vocal Center she has especially focus on composition and arranging vocal music and has led the artistic and pedagogical research projects The Composing Conductor and New Vocal Arrangements of Hymns.
On The Music School of Aarhus Malene is the conductor of the elite choir Maestra. Here Malene also teaches choir conducting at MGK-Ø, solo-singing and singing with mentally vulnerable young people.
Malene is especially well known for her vocal arrangements for choirs and vocal groups, among others Rajaton and Vocal Line. She has a great interest in newer Danish hymns and cooperates with the hymn poets Janne Mark and Iben Krogsdal. Many of her arrangements are published, see more in the menu Vocal Arrangements and Hymns and more.
For many years Malene has been cooperating with Morten Kjær in Ørehænger. Together they have published several sheet music books and handbooks about vocal music, including the popular book Modern Vocal Music.
As a solo artist Malene has released the EP Not Later Love. She was moreover singer, arranger and co-conductor of Vocal Line for 11 years.
Malene graduated at The Royal Academy of Music in 2002.