Malcolm Halliday has led the Master Singers of Worcester since the fall of 1998, after a long association with the chorus as both accompanist and assistant conductor. Under his leadership the chorus has developed a reputation as one of the finest choruses in central Massachusetts, renowned for dynamic and innovative programming, including Worcester premieres of such works as the Ellington Sacred Concerts, Ruth Watson Henderson’s Voices of Earth, Libbey Larsen’s cantata Eleanor Roosevelt and most recently Gwyneth Walker’s New England Journey commissioned for the 30th anniversary of the chorus.

Malcolm Halliday is co-director, with Jennifer Kane, of the Worcester Children's Chorus, a new choral program for children and youth managed by the Master Singers of Worcester. An active piano recitalist, he has recorded two compact discs of music by the twentieth century American composer Leo Sowerby, and given numerous concerts with historic pianos from the E. Michael Frederick Piano collection. Resident pianist for the American Schubert Institute in Boston, he is a founding member of the Blackstone Trio with mezzo- soprano D’Anna Fortunato and clarinetist Chester Brezniak.

Malcolm Halliday is Minister of Music at the First Congregational Church in Shrewsbury, where he oversees one of the largest mainline church music ministries in Massachusetts. He is also on the piano faculty at Clark University. A former dean of the Worcester Chapter of the American Guild of Organists, in 2007 he was one of only two persons in the country to obtain the highest level of certification as a Fellow (FAGO) of the American Guild of Organists. Halliday’s principal teachers include Paul Badura-Skoda, Henny Bordwin, Miles Mauney and Bela Nagy. He holds degrees in piano from Oberlin Conservatory and Boston University.