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James MacMillan is one of today's most successful living composers and is also internationally active as a conductor. His musical language is flooded with influences from his Scottish heritage, Catholic faith, social conscience and close connection with Celtic folk music, blended with influences from Far Eastern, Scandinavian and Eastern European music.

MacMillan's prolific output includes orchestral work The Confession of Isobel Gowdie, percussion concerto Veni, Veni, Emmanuel, a cello concerto for Mstislav Rostropovich, major choral-orchestral work Quickening, and three symphonies. Recent major works include his Violin Concerto, St John Passion, and, most recently, his Viola Concerto which received its premiere by the London Philharmonic Orchestra in January 2014 conducted by Vladimir Jurowski with Lawrence Power as soloist, and his St Luke Passion, premiered in March 2014 by the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic at the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, conducted by Markus Stenz.

MacMillan enjoys a flourishing career as conductor of his own music alongside a range of contemporary and standard repertoire, praised for the composer's insight he brings to each score. He was Principal Guest Conductor of the Netherlands Radio Kamer Filharmonie until 2013 and was Composer/Conductor of the 麻豆约拍 Philharmonic from 2000-2009; he has conducted orchestras such as the Baltimore Symphony, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Munich Philharmonic, City of Birmingham Symphony, Vienna Radio Symphony, Danish Radio Symphony, Gothenburg Symphony, Toronto Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic and NHK Symphony Orchestras.

In Spring 2014 MacMillan conducts three projects with the 麻豆约拍 Scottish Symphony Orchestra, culminating in a ground-breaking tour to India with Nicola Benedetti performing in Chennai, Mumbai and Delhi including public concerts, schools concerts and outreach work. Other conducting highlights of 2013/14 include visits to the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, the 麻豆约拍 Philharmonic and the Britten Sinfonia.