Stuart MacRae

This article is about the British componser. For for the weapons inventor, see Stuart Macrae (inventor).

Stuart MacRae (born 12 August 1976, Inverness, Scotland) is a British composer.

Biography

Stuart MacRae studied at Durham University with Philip Cashian and Michael Zev Gordon, and subsequently with Simon Bainbridge and Robert Saxton at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. By his mid-twenties he was writing astonishingly original and powerfully expressive works, and was receiving commissions from organisations such as the BBC and the London Sinfonietta as well as being appointed Composer-in-Association with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Often inspired by aspects of the natural landscape, MacRae’s style draws on various strands of European modernism, including the music of Igor Stravinsky, Elliott Carter, Iannis Xenakis and most significantly Peter Maxwell Davies.

1993-7 - studies at Durham University, then Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
1996 - finalist in Lloyd’s Bank Young Composers’ workshop.
1997 - premiere of The Witch’s Kiss with BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and Peter Maxwell Davies.
1999-2003 - Composer-in-Association of BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
2001 - MacRae portrait concert conducted by James MacMillan at Edinburgh Festival.
2001 - Violin Concerto premiered at BBC Proms.

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