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David (George) MacDonald. Organist, conductor, teacher, b Port Morien, NS, 9 Jul 1952, d Halifax 9 Aug 2003; B MUS ED (Dalhousie) 1974, MMA performance (McGill) 1977, Diploma, prix d'excellence (Conservatoire de Rueil-Malmaison, Paris) 1979. At Dalhousie University David MacDonald's organ teachers were Maitland Farmer and John Grew. In Montreal he continued lessons with Grew and with Raymond Daveluy. Scholarships from the Canada Council enabled him to study in Paris with Marie-Claire Alain and Daniel Roth. In 1987 he became director of music at First Baptist Church, Halifax, whose choir he developed into one of the province's principal concert choral ensembles. The choir toured France in 1990. MacDonald was an instructor in organ at the Department of Music, Dalhousie University, and also implemented a curriculum in organ and church music offered by the department in co-operation with the Atlantic School of Theology, where he was organist-choirmaster and lecturer in church music history and hymnology. He wrote and lectured for the Royal Canadian College of Organists, Nova Scotia Registered Music Teachers Association, Nova Scotia Choral Federation, and universities in Ontario and the Maritimes. He appeared with Symphony Nova Scotia as guest conductor, organ concerto soloist, and continuo player. As a concert organist he gave recitals in France, Sweden, Holland, Germany, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, and the UK, and in major concert halls and churches in Quebec, Ontario, and elsewhere in Canada.
His prominence in the musical life of the Maritimes was firmly established by his series of recitals 1985-7 comprising the complete organ works of Bach, presented in various Halifax churches. (MacDonald reprised this series in 1997.) A sample of this accomplishment was preserved in his 1987 CBC recording on the von Beckerath organ at the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Montreal. A later recording, David MacDonald Plays the Casavant Organ, won a 1999 East Coast Music Award. MacDonald was a member of the Royal Canadian College of Organists.
Author
Walter H. Kemp, Betty Nygaard King
Discography
Bach Organ Works. 1987. CBC Musica Viva MV-1030/ (with one additional work) CBC Musica Viva MVCD-1030 Journeys: Organ of Atlantic School of Theology. 1997. WRC87131 Atlantic School of Theology/CBC Radio Maritimes
Bibliography
"David MacDonald biography," CFMTA Newsletter, spring 1991 Obituary, Halifax Herald, 11 Aug 2003
Links to Other Sites
Organist David MacDonald dies
A CBC obituary for acclaimed Canadian organist David MacDonald.
Journeys
Scroll down the page for a brief description of the recording "Journeys," featuring organist David MacDonald. From the website "Wolff & Associés."
A rebel without a choir
A profile of Andrew Ager, composer-in-residence at Toronto's St. James Cathedral. Also includes a brief video clip of Ager at the console of the cathedral organ. From thestar.com.
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