David Mallamud is an Emmy-nominee, a MacDowell Fellow, a Dramatist Guild Fellow, A Leonard Bernstein Fellow (Tanglewood), A Fred Ebb, Jonathan Larson Award, and Richard Rodgers Award finalist, a recipient of a Broadway World Album Award, two ASCAP Morton Gould Awards, and a Charles Ives Scholarship from The American Academy of Arts and Letters.  He has composed for venues ranging from Carnegie Hall to Off-Broadway, where his music for the recent production of Flight School: The Musical was lauded by Laurel Graeber of the New York Times as the show’s “biggest boon . . . worthy of bigger stages, variously embracing classical lyricism, pulsing pop, the poignant ballad and at least one all-out, Alice Cooper–style rock rant.”

Mallamud is currently working on projects with Craig Lucas, Trav S.D., and Nathan Christensen. Recently Mallamud was thrilled to work with Mike Mills (of R.E.M. fame), arranging and composing additional music for his Concerto for Rock Band and Violin, written for violinist Robert McDuffie, who premiered it with Mills and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. It toured the US and has been performed by The Buffalo Philharmonic, and The Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra. A second tour in the fall of 2019 brought Chuck Leavell (keyboardist and musical director of the Rolling Stones) on board for A Night of Georgia Music (the concerto + new arrangements by Mills and Mallamud of your favorite Georgia-themed songs). In March of 2022, A Night of Georgia Music was filmed for PBS. It aired on July 4th on Georgia PBS and won an Emmy for best long form special arts/entertainment, and earned David an Emmy nomination (along with Mike Mills and Chuck Leavell) in the composition/arranging category. In September, the Atlanta Symphony Premiered R.E.M. Explored - a symphony of re-imagined R.E.M. songs for The Atlanta Symphony and a larger orchestration of Mike’s Concerto.

Mallamud’s other recent projects include Dr. Seuss’s The Sneetches The Musical, in collaboration with playwright Philip Dawkins, which premiered at the Children’s Theatre Company in Minneapolis; Flight School The Musical (written with Joshua Cohen and Cara Lustik; based on the book by Lita Judge) which had several off-broadway runs, toured China for two years, and had two US tours, Kid Frankenstein (written with Peter Charles Morris) which ran Off-Broadway in the Fall of 2017; nine song cycles for Dogs of Desire, the Albany Symphony’s rock-inspired new music ensemble - including Spittoonia on the Erie (written with Nathan Christensen), which was also performed by The Albany Symphony on a barge in the Erie Canal as part of their Water Music New York project - announced by Governor Andrew Cuomo; a ballet Elegy for the Metropolitan Ballet (Twin Cities) with the Kenwood Symphony; a solo classical guitar piece, Spatula, published by Les Productions D'Oz; and These Were The Days with Tony-nominated Bookwriter-lyricist Peter Kellogg,  and Belinda with Emmy-nominated lyricist Alisa Hauser (A Christmas Carol on PBS).

His acclaimed CD, The Wild & Whimsical Worlds of David Mallamud (Broadway Records), which won a Broadway World Album Award for Best New Compilation, features some of today’s greatest Broadway voices: Sierra Boggess (Love Never Dies, The Little Mermaid), Christiane Noll (Jekyll and Hyde, Ragtime) Constantine Maroulis (American Idol, Rock of Ages), Amick Byram (Prince of Egypt,  Family Guy), Brian Charles Rooney (Three Penny Opera, Bed Bugs, Pop! Who Shot Andy Warhol?), Janet Dacal (In The Heights, Wonderland), Morgan James (Postmodern Jukebox, The Addams Family), as well as Irish singers Cathie Ryan and Dan Webb, conducted by David Alan Miller. Also featured are Eric Rigler on uilleann pipes (films Braveheart and Titanic) and guitarist Joel Hoekstra (Rock of Ages, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, and Whitesnake); Produced by Kim Scharnberg (Jekyll & Hyde, Little Women, A River Runs Through It), and Grammy winners Joel Moss and David Alan Miller.

Mallamud’s concert works have been championed by the Albany, Harrisburg, and New World Symphonies, as well as the Westchester Philharmonic. His prowess in writing purely orchestral music was appreciated by New York Times' critic Anthony Tommasini, who said about Mallamud’s Frenzy: “Imagine Stravinsky in his ‘Rite of Spring’ mode writing music for the dance at the gym scene in ‘West Side Story’ and you get the idea.” Similarly, Mallamud’s wit and love of mixing styles in the vocal realm won praise from Amy Biancolli (Albany’s Times Union), who wrote of his CD, The Wild & Whimsical Worlds of David Mallamud: “The sum is an album of music conceived for imaginary stages in imaginary worlds, but rendered like old hands, with all the relaxed brio of a Broadway cast album. Whether aching or upbeat, whether evoking Disney or Bernstein or Tin Pan Alley or "Tommy," the music is delightful. It's also insane. There's a nuttiness to the whole thing, a kind of crazed enthusiasm in its many and omnivorous references, that cannot be underemphasized.”

He earned his bachelor’s degree from the Eastman School of Music and master’s degrees from Juilliard and NYU’s Tisch Graduate Musical Theater Writing Program, pursuing additional graduate studies at Yale with Ned Rorem and Evan Ziporyn.