• Professor, Music

Hugh MacDonald

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• Ph.D. in Music at Cambridge University
• M.A. in Music at Cambridge University
• B.A. in Music at Cambridge University

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140 years later, a world premiere Hugh Macdonald prepares performing edition for Eduard Lalo's previously unperformed opera Fiesque Aug. 21, 2006 -- MacDonald Download Hugh Macdonald, the Avis H. Blewett Professor of Music in Arts & Sciences, has prepared a performing edition of Fiesque (1866-68), a previously unperformed opera by French composer Eduardo Lalo (1823-1892). The piece will receive its world première July 27 at Le Festival de Radio France et Montpellier. His newly prepared score will be published later this year by Bärenreiter Editions.

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A British citizen, Macdonald joined the music department in 1987, prior to which he served as the Gardiner Professor of Music at Scotland's Glasgow University. From 1971 to 1980, he was University Lecturer in Music and a fellow of St. John's College at Oxford University in England. From 1966 to 1971, he served as University Lecturer in Music and a fellow of Pembroke College at Cambridge University in England. He also was a visiting professor of musicology at Indiana University in Bloomington in 1979.

Macdonald earned a bachelors degree in mathematics and music with first-class honors from Cambridge in 1961. He received a master's degree in 1966 and a doctorate in 1969, both in music and both from Cambridge.