Malcolm Troup (22 February 1930 – 8 December 2021) was a Canadian classical pianist, musicologist, academic administrator and teacher, who spent much of his career in London.
Troup moved to Europe, studying first with Sidney Harrison at the Guildhall School of Music in London (1950–52) and then with Walter Gieseking in Saarbrücken (1954–56), receiving financial support from the Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire.
[1][2] He gained a DPhil from the University of York in 1968, with a thesis entitled "Messiaen and the Modern Mind"; his supervisor was the composer and musicologist, Wilfrid Mellers.
[1][2] Troup first appeared with the CBC Toronto Orchestra, playing the Piano Concerto in D minor by Anton Rubinstein, at the age of 17.
[3] In 1962, Troup married Carmen Lamarca Subercasaux (died 2011), from Chile, in Rome, and they settled in the London suburb of Islington.
[9] In his final months he lived in Newbury, Berkshire, where he participated in a video illustrating the use of music therapy, in which he is shown responding to his own recording of Messiaen's Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-Jésus.