| Name |
Other Names |
Birthyear |
Deathyear |
Notes |
| 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 |
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Irish Composer |
| 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 |
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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 |
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Canadian musician, composer, harpist, accordionist, and pianist |
| McKenzie, Bret |
|
1976 |
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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, Elizabeth |
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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. |
| Mead, Phyllis Read |
|
|
1978 |
Former president of the Brooklyn Music School and noted translator of operas. |
| Meader, Darmon |
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Recognized in both the jazz vocal and instrumental worlds, Darmon Meader is a distinguished vocalist, arranger and saxophonist. Darmon has achieved international recognition as the founder, musical director, chief arranger, composer, saxophonist, and tenor vocalist with New York Voices. |
| Meagher, Felix |
|
1955 |
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Australian performer and composer. He has worked with well known film producer Baz Luhrmann on several of his projects. Currently, he continues his career in music with the professional band 'Bushwahazee'. The band mainly performs in schools |
| Mealor, Paul |
|
1975 |
|
Welsh composer. A large proportion of his output is for chorus, both a cappella and accompanied. He came to wider notice when his motet Ubi Caritas et Amor was performed at the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton in 2011 |
| Mechem, Kirke Lewis |
|
1925 |
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American composer. His first opera, Tartuffe, with over 400 performances in six countries, has become one of the most popular operas written by an American. He has composed more than 250 works in almost every form |