Andrew Paul MacDonald CM (born 30 November 1958) is a Canadian classical composer,[1] guitarist, conductor, and music educator.
[3] Born in Guelph, Ontario, MacDonald studied music theory and piano with Rosemarie Hamilton and guitar with Alexandre Lagoya, Michael Lorimer, Ray Sealey and Manuel Lopez-Ramos.
He earned a Bachelor of Music from the University of Western Ontario in 1981 where he was a pupil of Arsenio Girón and Alan Heard.
In 1987 he joined the faculty at Bishop's University in Lennoxville, Quebec where as of 2015 he is chairman and professor of composition and electronic music.
[7] Biographical articles on MacDonald are to be found in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2nd ed., 2001) and the Canadian Who's Who (annually since 1998).