John Mcleod

With music influenced by both neo-Romantics and modernists, composer John McLeod was one of Britain's most popular and prolific composers since coming on the scene in the 1970s until his death in 2022. His output spanned most major genres except for opera, from orchestral music, including several concertos, to choral, chamber, and vocal scores, as well as music for film and theater. The BBC Scottish Symphony broadcast McLeod's works more than a dozen times. Soloists who have played McLeod's works include percussionist Evelyn Glennie, whose performance of his Percussion Concerto was paired with a Scottish Chamber Orchestra reading of his orchestral piece Out of the Silence in 2018.