Malcolm MacDonald (1916–1992) was a British composer, academic and critic. He was educated at Harrow, and then at Trinity College, Cambridge. During the war he was a Bandmaster, RAF Coastal Command (1942–44), and then with the Flying Training Command (1944–45). After the war he moved to South Africa as a senior lecturer in music at Cape Town University. Returning to the UK he was a professor of harmony and counterpoint at the Royal Academy of Music from 1954, a lecturer at the Royal Academy of Dancing (1962–67), and an examiner with the Associated Board from 1965. He was an expert on wind instruments and a jazz enthusiast.
- Occupation
- composer
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Born
- 1916
