James MacMillan

James MacMillan’s new work, ‘Angels Unawares’, will be premiered on Sunday 22 March in the Sistine Chapel by Harry Christophers and @TheSixteen, who will make music history by giving the first-ever world premiere of a concert work in this venue.

On Friday 6 March, James MacMillan received a Doctorate Honoris Causa at the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music and delivered a lecture in which he reflected on silence, faith, and the role of the composer in the modern age. ➡️Read more: bit.ly/4lfkgf8

🎶 HM King Charles III has approved the award of the 2025 King’s Gold Medal for Music to James MacMillan. ➡ Read more here: bit.ly/4aXQ9nN

Thank you to everyone who joined James MacMillan, @BBCSO & Chorus, with soloists Rhian Lois & Roderick Williams at the Barbican last Friday for his ‘Christmas Oratorio’. 📻 You can tune in to the concert on Christmas Day on @BBCRadio3 at 8.05pm - bbc.in/48T0Po0

🎶A snippet from yesterday’s rehearsal🎶 Ahead of tonight's performance of James MacMillan conducting his ‘Christmas Oratorio’ at the Barbican, London with soloists Rhian Lois and Roderick Williams, @BBCSO & Chorus 🎟️ Find out more and book tickets: bbc.in/3XVHTic

James MacMillan’s ‘Christmas Oratorio’ finds both strangeness and splendour in the most familiar of sacred stories. 🎼 Follow along with this @Boosey score video of Movement VI, Chorus 2 from the ‘Christmas Oratorio’: bit.ly/4rSudlI

✨James MacMillan discusses the creation of his ‘Christmas Oratorio’ 🎶 MacMillan conducts the work with @BBCSO, Rhian Lois and Roderick Williams on Friday 19 December @BarbicanCentre, London. 🎟️Tickets available here: bbc.in/3XVHTic

In a new series for @BBCRadio3, James MacMillan explores how fellow composers like Haydn, Beethoven, and Hildegard von Bingen depict the first day of creation in music. 📻 Tune into the first episode this Saturday (29 November) at 1pm: bbc.in/44h4tFJ

"I saw in my grandfather and my father certain characteristics that I saw in Jock Stein." James MacMillan on @BBCRadio4 - Great Lives, looking at the life of Jock Stein, manager of Celtic FC when they won the 1967 European Cup. 📻 Listen on BBC Sounds: bbc.in/4geiIzv

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Wishing @jamesmacm a Happy Birthday! To celebrate, why not take a look at a snapshot from a recent performance of MacMillan's "Concerto for Orchestra" by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra! Available now on @BBCiPlayer Find out more here: bbc.in/4kF9Nb2

🎶 James MacMillan conducts @BBCSingers this evening in a programme surveying a number of his choral compositions, juxtaposed with a selection of early works @NNFest. ➡ Find out more here: bbc.co.uk/events/e8m5q9

James MacMillan pays tribute to his friend Christian Elliott, a key player in @TheCumnockTryst's community and education programmes, in The Times. "We will miss Christian sorely but will remember him always.” Read here: bit.ly/4miY0kR

In his latest diary for @spectator, James MacMillan reflects on his recent trip to the US, from conducting the @minnorch and collaboration with VocalEssence in Minneapolis, to his time at Catholic University of America in Washington D.C. ➡ Read more here: bit.ly/3GVgJTh

"He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another." #Conclave2025. At the 12 noon Mass on Sunday we give the WORLD PREMIÈRE of Sir James MacMillan's setting of Saint John Henry Newman's text: "He has not created me for naught". #GoodShepherdSunday #Vocations

✨ Highlights from the world premiere of James MacMillan’s ‘Where the Lugar Meets the Glaisnock’, featuring euphonium soloist David Childs and @BBCNOW.🎶 📻 Take a listen to the full concert on @BBCSounds here: bbc.in/4cZz5i1 📷 Athena Picture Agency

🎶@BBCNOW perform the world premiere of James MacMillan’s Euphonium Concerto, ‘Where the Lugar Meets the Glaisnock’, with soloist David Childs this evening. 📻Catch up with James MacMillan on @BBCRadio3 In Tune yesterday about his new work (⏩1:29) bbc.in/3Ys1vLz

🎺James MacMillan looks back to his brass band roots in an interview with Richard Morrison ahead of the World Premiere of his Euphonium Concerto, ‘Where the Lugar Meets the Glaisnock’ with David Childs and the @BBCNOW next week. ➡️Read the article here: bit.ly/3GsuTLq

✨Watch James MacMillan on @kare11 , where he looks forward to two concerts at the end of this week in collaboration with VocalEssence, following his performances conducting the @minnorch over the weekend. youtu.be/9Ft2vALv7z0?si…

✨ 🎶James MacMillan is in Minnesota for two weeks creating incredible music with the @minnorch and VocalEssence. Yesterday, he appeared on @WCCO to talk about the planned performances whilst in the US! ➡️ Watch the full interview: cbsn.ws/3QMFO4C