| Name |
Other Names |
Birthyear |
Deathyear |
Notes |
| McDowall, Cecilia |
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1951 |
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British composer who In 2014 won the British Composer Award for Choral Music. Much of McDowall’s choral music is performed worldwide, as well as her orchestral music. |
| McElheran, Brock |
|
1918 |
2008 |
Canadian born Conductor and professor at the Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam N.Y. and a published author. He was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He conducted the orchestra and chorus at the closing ceremonies of the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid. He has also had various compositions published. During his active career he prepared choruses for many of the world's leading conductors, |
| McEwen, Douglas R. |
McEwen, Douglas Reeve |
1930 |
2003 |
Retired director of choirs at Arizona State University and Professor Emeritus at that institution. Eminent conductor of chorale works throughout USA |
| McEwen, John B. |
McEwen, John Blackwood |
1868 |
1948 |
Scottish classical composer and educator. Trained at Royal Academy of music, after which he returned to Scotland where he was a choirmaster and teacher at Greenock and Glasgow, he was invited to become Professor of Harmony and Composition at the RAM, from 1898 until 1924, and was Principal between 1924 and 1936. |
| McFadyen, Ella |
|
1887 |
1976 |
Australian Lyricist |
| McGlynn, Michael |
|
1964 |
|
Irish Composer |
| McGregor, Grian |
|
|
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lyricist best known for writing the words to "Ashokan Farewell" for an SATB choral arrangement of Jay Ungar's famous melody |
| McGuire, Barry |
|
1935 |
|
American singer-songwriter. He is known for the hit song "Eve of Destruction", and later as a pioneering singer and songwriter of contemporary Christian music. |
| McGuire, Kathleen |
|
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21st century Australian-American conductor, composer, educator |
| McHugh, Jimmy |
McHugh, James Francis |
1894 |
1969 |
American composer. One of the most prolific songwriters from the 1920s to the 1950s, he is credited with over 500 songs. |
| McIntosh, Stuart |
|
1949 |
|
British composer and choral conductor |
| McKay, Steven |
|
1978 |
|
Queensland based composer who studied with Stephen Leek and Gerald Brophy at Queensland Conservatorium. He is now a composer, Orchestrator and conductor based in Brisbane |
| McKelvy, James |
|
1917 |
2003 |
Founder of Mark Foster Music Publishing. British composer, author and music arranger |
| McKennitt, Loreena |
McKennitt, Loreena Isabel Irene |
1957 |
|
Canadian musician, composer, harpist, accordionist, and pianist |
| McKenzie, Bret |
|
1976 |
|
New Zealand comedian, actor musician |
| McKenzie, Scott |
|
1939 |
2012 |
American singer and songwriter, a member of the Mamas and Papas Group. He co-wrote songs for the Beach Boys |
| McKie, William |
McKie, William Neil (Sir) |
1981 |
1984 |
Australian organist, conductor, and composer. He was Organist and Master of the Choristers at Westminster Abbey 1941-1963 and noted for his direction of the music for the marriage of Princess Elizabeth in 1947, and later her Coronation in 1953. |
| McKinley, Ian |
|
1929 |
|
Australian Music Lecturer at Mt Gravatt CAE (now part of Griffith University) until his retirement. Choral conductor of several Queensland Choirs. his chief interest now is choral composition. He sang with, and retains a keen interest in, Canticum Chamber Choir, and is an Honorary Life Member. His many compositions and arrangements for the group include a setting of Paul Sherman's Triptych of Austral Time. |
| McKinley, William Thomas |
|
1938 |
2015 |
American composer and jazz pianist . He wrote more than 300 musical compositions, many of which have been recorded by such ensembles as the London Symphony Orchestra, the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, and the Seattle Symphony. |
| McLachlan, Sarah |
|
1968 |
|
Canadian musician, singer, songwriter, and pianist. |
| McLean, Don |
McLean, Donald |
1945 |
|
Donald McLean III is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. Known as the "American Troubadour" or "King of the Trail", he is best known for his 1971 hit "American Pie" |
| McLean, Elizabeth |
|
|
|
Lyricist |
| McLean, H. J. |
McLean, Hugh John |
1930 |
|
Canadian organist, choirmaster, pianist, harpsichordist, administrator, teacher, musicologist |
| McLennan, J. |
McLennan, John Stewart |
1915 |
|
Scottish Pipe Major and composer and arranger bag pipe music |
| McLin, Lena J. |
McLin, Lena Johnson |
1928 |
|
American composer and arranger. She appears in a composer in the book "Choral Music by African American composers |
| McNaught, W.G. |
McNaught, William Gray |
1849 |
1918 |
Late 19th cntury and early 20th century music arranger and assistant to John Stainer as inspector |
| McRae, John |
|
1872 |
1918 |
Canadian poet, physician, author, artist and soldier during World War I, and a surgeon during the Second Battle of Ypres, in Belgium. He is best known for writing the famous war memorial poem "In Flanders Fields". McCrae died of pneumonia near the end of the war. |
| McRae, Shirley |
|
|
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Professor Emerita at the Rudy E. Scheidt School of Music, The University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee, where she taught for 25 years and served as coordinator of music education for seven years. published extensively, with articles in church and music education journals. Also a composer and arranger, she has published nine books of folk and original songs arranged for treble voices and Orff instruments. |
| McTell, Ralph |
May, Ralph |
1944 |
|
English singer-songwriter and acoustic guitar player who has been an influential figure on the UK folk music scene since the 1960s |
| Mead, George B. |
|
|
1996 |
American conductor, organist, and opera translator. He was organist and choirmaster of Trinity Church in Manhattan for 27 years. |