Stuart MacRae.

About Stuart MacRae

Stuart MacRae is a Scottish composer and academic whose work spans contemporary classical music, modern opera, and large ensemble works. He received national commissions in his early twenties from the BBC and the London Sinfonietta, later serving as the Composer-in-Association with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. MacRae has established a long-standing creative partnership with librettist Louise Welsh, resulting in operas such as Ghost Patrol, which won the 2013 South Bank Sky Arts Award for Opera—and Anthropocene (2019) for Scottish Opera. He holds a PhD from the University of Edinburgh and serves on the senior faculty of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland as a Lecturer in Composition.