Hugh John McLean CM (5 January 1930 – 30 July 2017[1]) was a Canadian organist, choirmaster, pianist, harpsichordist, administrator, teacher, musicologist, composer, and editor.
[6] During Canada's Centennial year, 1967, McLean was a featured soloist at Expo 67 on the Casavant Organ installation at "Man and His World."
McLean performed in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Chicago, and at two of Bach's churches, the Blasiuskirche of Mühlhausen and the Thomaskirche of Leipzig.
3 (3 and 4 April 1979), Poulenc's Concerto (12, 13, and 16 September 1982) in the inaugural concerts[12] of Roy Thomson Hall on the Gabriel Kney Organ that he helped to design.
He also toured Great Britain, Japan, Scandinavia, and Switzerland, and presented lecture-recitals and masterclasses in Germany and Australia.
[13] McLean specialized in 17th- and 18th-century musicology studies, and was awarded Canada Council grants in 1960 and 1965 to investigate the Cummings collection of western manuscripts at Nanki Music Library, Japan.
A further grant in 1972 enabled him to visit Poland and the German Democratic Republic, where he located a lost opera by Alessandro Scarlatti, and works by Johann Hermann Schein.