Mary McDonald (born 1956) is an American composer, arranger, producer, pianist, and organist.
Mary McDonald showed an early talent for music, playing hymns by ear by age five.
She graduated from Carson-Newman College in East Tennessee in 1978 and took her first position as an organist at Beaver Dam Baptist Church in Knoxville.
[1] Besides composing, McDonald works as a choral clinician throughout the United States, conducting workshops.
She received a second place award from the John Ness Beck Foundation for her composition "Yes, My Jesus Loves Me.