Gareth Edmund Malone (born on November 9, 1975) is an English choirmaster and Officer of the Order of the British Empire, mainly known for his extensive work with the reality TV format. Malone developed a passion for music from a very young age, singing at Bournemouth School’s Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and later joining the university choir at the University of East Anglia, where he studied drama. After completing his postgraduate vocal studies at The Royal Academy of Music in London, Malone started working for the London Symphony, running their youth and community choir. His television work started in 2007 with the reality TV series The Choir, a show that exposed teenagers to choral singing and won two BAFTA Awards, and continued with the sequels The Choir: Boys Don’t Sing (2008), Unsung Town (2009), and The Choir: Military Wives (2011). In 2013, he put together Voices, a contemporary take on the classic choral genre whose self-titled debut climbed to Number 23 on the UK Albums Chart. He followed up with A Great British Christmas (2016) and Music for Healing (2019), inspired by his work with the victims of the Grenfell Tower fire. Amidst the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, Malone created Gareth Malone’s Great British Home Chorus, a stay-at-home choir that was broadcasted over the Internet. The online show spawned the single “You Are My Sunshine,” which was recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra and reached Number 57 on the UK Singles Chart.
