Margaret McAllister
Margaret McAllister, BM, MM, DMA, has composed music for many different genres
including orchestral works, choral music, a variety of chamber ensembles, for
electroacoustic media,solo works, film, and music for performance by children.
She pursued her undergraduate work in film scoring at Berklee College of Music,
Boston and her graduate studies in classical composition and music theory at
Boston University where her principal teachers were Theodore Antoniou and
Lukas Foss. She has also worked with Milton Babbitt,
Oliver Knussen, Toru Takemitsu and Joan Tower.
She has received fellowships and residencies from the
Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, the Festival
at Sandpoint, Scotia Festival of Music, Centres Acanthes, Avignon and the
June in Buffalo Festival. Her work has been supported by the Fromm and
Navigator Foundations and she has had commissions and performances from
professional solo artists and performing ensembles such as the and her works
have been performed by the New Millennium Ensemble, Alea III, Boston Composers
String Quartet, Pandora's Vox , as well as on National Public Radio and the
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. She was the co-founder of Crosscurrents,
a new music platform dedicated to performing the works of young and emerging
composers and is the artistic director and founder of Hyperprism, a
contemporary concert series at Boston College. She has received a research
grant from the National Endowment of the Humanities for her work exploring
relationships between the visual arts and music. She has been a visiting
Assistant Professor at Simmons College, Honorary Research Fellow, 2003-2006
University of Glasgow Music Department and is an Associate of the Science and
Music Research Group, School of Engineering, University of Glasgow and a member of
n-ISM. Dr McAllister lives in Boston, is a composer member and
Co-President of Composers in
Red Sneakers and is Senior Lecturer at
Berklee College of Music.
Research Interests
- Composition.
- History and pedagogy of music theory. Teaching theory using compositional models.
- Collaborative multimedia: intrinsic integration of auditory and visual parameters in the multimedia artwork. Collaborative processes between artists and technologists.
- Composition of music for films, both conventional and experimental. Rhetoric and meaning in film music.
- Language and text settings. Most specifically, Scottish Gaelic.
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