James MacMillan

Quick Facts

Full Name	James MacMillan
Occupation	Conductor
Date Of Birth	Jul 16, 1959(1959-07-16)
Age	65
Birthplace	Kilwinning
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	Kilwinning
Horoscope	Cancer

James MacMillan Biography

James MacMillan is one of the most popular and richest Conductor who was born on July 16, 1959 in Kilwinning, Kilwinning, United Kingdom. Sir James Loy MacMillan, CBE (born 16 July 1959) is a Scottish classical composer and conductor.

The work’s international acclaim spurred more high-profile commissions, including a percussion concerto for fellow Scot Evelyn Glennie, Veni, Veni, Emmanuel. It was premiered in 1992 and has become MacMillan’s most performed work. He was also asked by Mstislav Rostropovich to compose a cello concerto, which was premiered by Rostropovich himself in 1997.

MacMillan’s music is infused with the spiritual and the political. His Roman Catholic faith has inspired many of his sacred works; for example, Magnificat (1999), and several Masses. This central strand of his life and compositions was marked by the BBC Symphony Orchestra in early 2005, with a survey of his music entitled From Darkness into Light. MacMillan and his wife are lay Dominicans, and he has collaborated with Michael Symmons Roberts, a Catholic poet, and also Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury. Perhaps his most political work is Cantos Sagrados (1990), a setting of Latin American poetry by Ariel Dorfman and Ana Maria Mendoza, combining elements of liberation theology with more conventional religious texts. MacMillan has explicitly stated that his aim in writing this work was to emphasise ‘a deeper solidarity with the poor of that subcontinent’ in the context of political repression.

MacMillan was composer and conductor with the BBC Philharmonic from 2000 to 2009, following which he took up a position as principal guest conductor with the Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic. His collaboration with Michael Symmons Roberts continued with his second opera, The Sacrifice (based on the ancient Welsh tales of the Mabinogion), being premiered by Welsh National Opera in Autumn 2007. Sundogs, a large-scale work for a cappella choir, also using text by Symmons Roberts, was premiered by the Indiana University Contemporary Vocal Ensemble in August 2006.

He came to the attention of the classical establishment with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra’s premiere of The Confession of Isobel Gowdie at the Proms in 1990. Isobel Gowdie was one of many women executed for witchcraft in 17th- century Scotland. According to the composer, “On behalf of the Scottish people the work craves absolution and offers Isobel Gowdie the mercy and humanity that was denied her in the last days of her life”.

James MacMillan Net Worth

James MacMillan is one of the richest Conductor from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, James MacMillan 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

MacMillan was born at Kilwinning, in North Ayrshire, but lived in the East Ayrshire town of Cumnock until 1977.

He studied composition at the University of Edinburgh with Rita McAllister and Kenneth Leighton, and at Durham University with John Casken, where he gained an undergraduate degree and then a PhD degree in 1987. At Durham he was a member of the College of St Hild and St Bede as an undergraduate student and the Graduate Society while studying for his PhD. He was a lecturer in music at the Victoria University of Manchester from 1986 to 1988. After his studies, MacMillan returned to Scotland, composing prolifically, and becoming Associate Composer with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, often working on education projects. As a young man he was briefly a member of the Young Communist League.

Scottish traditional music has also had a profound musical influence, and is frequently discernible in his works. When the Scottish Parliament was reconvened in 1999 after 292 years, a fanfare composed by MacMillan accompanied the Queen into the chamber. Weeks after the opening ceremony, MacMillan launched a vigorous attack on sectarianism in Scotland, particularly anti-Catholicism, in a speech entitled “Scotland’s Shame”.

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One of his most important commissions (by the Bishops’ Conferences of England & Wales and of Scotland) was to write a new mass setting for choir and congregation to be sung at two of the three masses celebrated by Pope Benedict XVI during his Apostolic and state visit to Great Britain in 2010. First sung at mass at Bellahouston Park, Glasgow, on 16 September it was sung again at the mass and beatification of John Henry Newman at Cofton Park, Birmingham, on 19 September). He was also commissioned to write a setting of the text Tu es Petrus (Matthew 16:18) for the Pope’s entry at mass at Westminster Cathedral on 18 September.

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James Ranked on the list of most popular Conductor. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. James MacMillan celebrates birthday on July 16 of every year.

MacMillan is married, and has two daughters and a son. He also had a granddaughter, Sara Maria, who had Dandy–Walker syndrome. He said of her short life that, “We have been blessed and transformed through knowing and loving Sara, and being known and loved in return by her.”

Who is James McMillan?

James McMillan was a Detroit industrialist and U.S. Senator from Michigan. He was born on May 12, 1838 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. His father, William, founded the Great Western Railway. McMillan was educated and raised in Ontario, but in 1855, moved to Detroit.

Is James MacMillan Catholic?

MacMillan’s music is infused with the spiritual and the political. His Catholic faith has inspired many of his sacred works; for example, a Magnificat (1999), and several masses.