Dr. Malavolti is a conductor, composer, and musical clinician originally from Tulsa. He has directed and prepared musicians throughout Oklahoma for performances with the Tulsa Symphony, OKC Philharmonic, OK Mozart Festival, Saint John’s Baroque Orchestra, Oklahoma Baroque Orchestra, The University of Tulsa, and the University of Oklahoma. Before returning to Tulsa, he was the Conductor-In-Residence of the MUSET Homeschool Orchestra in Kingston, New York. He was also the Assistant Conductor of The Collegiate Chorale in New York City where he assisted in preparing the symphonic chorus for performances around the world with esteemed conductors such as Riccardo Muti, Zubin Mehta, Charles Dutoit, and Alan Gilbert.

In addition to directing the Bartlesville Chorale, Dr. Malavolti is the Artistic Director of the Tulsa Chorale, Assistant Conductor of the Oklahoma Bach Choir, and the Associate Music Director at Saint John’s Episcopal Church in Tulsa where he directs the parish choir, youth choristers, schola cantorum, and their professional chamber choir. The church proudly offers a Choral Evensong every Sunday. At Saint John’s, he is also the Composer-In-Residence and maintains a steady output of music for various ensembles.

Dr. Malavolti is a graduate of The University of Tulsa (BM) where he was a prize-winning composition student under Joseph Rivers and Roger Price.  At the Bard Conservatory of Music (MM), he studied both choral and orchestral conducting with James Bagwell and Harold Farberman. He completed his doctorate at The University of Oklahoma (DMA) under the supervision of Richard Zielinski and David Howard.  His research is on colonial American choral music and its later use by the twentieth-century American composer Henry Cowell. Dr. Malavolti has been featured as a guest speaker at the University of Oklahoma’s Center for Democracy and Culture, presenting on the cultural and historic position of Handel’s Messiah, and was awarded an honorary membership into Tulsa’s Phi Beta Kappa chapter in 2023 for his contributions to the arts in Oklahoma.