Victoria Malawey is a composer, scholar, and songwriter based in the Twin Cites. Malawey is Professor of Music at Macalester College and author of A Blaze of Light in Every Word: Analyzing the Popular Singing Voice, which won the 2023 Wallace Berry Award given by the Society for Music Theory. Recently commissioned premieres include pieces for 10th Wave Chamber Music Collective in Minneapolis, Sound of Silent Film festival in Chicago and New York, and Red Cedar Chamber Music in Iowa.