Hugh McLean (organist)
Hugh McLean (born January 5, 1930 in Winnipeg , Manitoba , † July 30, 2017 in Naples , Florida ) was a Canadian organist , choir director, pianist, harpsichordist, music teacher and scholar.
McLean studied piano with Russell Standing , Phyllis Schuldt and Arthur Benjamin , organ with Hugh Bancroft and William H. Harris, and composition with William Lloyd Webber . He received a scholarship to study the organ at King's College , Cambridge and won the Arnold Bax Commonwealth Medal (1954) and the Harriet Cohen Bach Medal (1955) while studying there (1951-56 ).
After returning to Canada, he was organist and choirmaster at Ryerson United Church in Vancouver from 1957 to 1973 . In 1958 he founded the Vancouver Cantata Singers , whose conductor he was until 1967, directed the Hugh McLean Consort , an ensemble for historical performances of baroque music , from 1957 to 1967 , and founded the CBC Vancouver Singers . From 1967 to 1969 he taught at the University of Victoria , then at the University of British Columbia . From 1973 to 1980 he was dean of the music faculty at the University of Western Ontario , where he taught organ, harpsichord and music history from 1991 until his retirement in 1995. He then became music director at All Saints Episcopal Church in Winter Park, Florida .
As an organist McLean joined the CBC , many major cities in Canada, in San Francisco , Los Angeles and Chicago , in the Blasius Church in Muhlhausen and the St. Thomas Church in Leipzig. He gave radio concerts with the BBC , in Australia, Switzerland and Japan, conducted in 1975 with the Polish Radio and in 1988 undertook a concert tour of the USSR. With the CBC Vancouver Chamber Orchestra under the direction of John Avison , he gave the Canadian premiere of Paul Hindemith's organ concerts (1970, 1972), with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra he performed Camille Saint-Saëns ' 3rd Symphony (1978) and Francis Poulenc's Concerto (1982 ) on and at the 1975 World Music Week in Toronto , he premiered Bengt Hambraeus ' Icons . At the International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition in Leipzig in 1984 he was one of the jurors.
As a musicologist, McLean was a specialist in 17th and 18th century music. During a trip to Poland and the GDR he discovered works by Alessandro Scarlatti and Johann Hermann Schein , edited organ works by Henry Purcell and Johann Ludwig Krebs and compositions by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , William Felton , John Blow and HN Gerber , and worked on the new one Edition of the works of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and authored several articles for the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians .
1953 McLean became a member of the Royal College of Organists , 1957 of the Royal Canadian College of Organists ; from 1975 to 1980 he was director of the Canadian Music Council . In 1975 he was admitted to the Royal Society of Canada and in 1978 a member of the Order of Canada . In 1990 the GDR awarded him the Star of Friendship of Nations . McLean was married to the pianist Anne Stillman (* 1950).
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| SURNAME | McLean, Hugh |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian organist, pianist, harpsichordist, music teacher and scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 5th January 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Winnipeg , Manitoba |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 30, 2017 |
| Place of death | Naples , Florida |