Gerard McBurney (born 20 June 1954) is a British composer, arranger, broadcaster, teacher and writer.

He also worked as artistic advisor with various orchestras, performers and presenters including The Hallé, Complicite and Lincoln Center.

In September 2006, he was appointed Artistic Programming Advisor to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Creative Director of the CSO's multimedia series Beyond the Score: His original compositions include orchestral works, a ballet, a chamber opera, songs and chamber music as well as many theater scores.

He also is well known for his reconstructions of various lost and forgotten works by Dmitri Shostakovich.In 2008 McBurney collaborated with Scottish poet Iain Finlay Macleod, director Kath Burlinson and choreographer Struan Leslie on an adaptation of The Silver Bough by F. Marian McNeill.

His reconstruction of Shostakovich's rediscovered operatic fragment Orango was premiered by the Los Angeles Philharmonic in December 2011.