George McPhee (b. 1937) - Full biography
http://www.georgemcphee.co.uk/
George McPhee was born in Glasgow and was a student at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and at Edinburgh University. He studied organ with the late Herrick Bunney and later, with the assistance of a Cross Trust Scholarship, with Fernando Germani in Italy. Prizes include the Sir Donald Francis Tovey Prize at Edinburgh University and the Limpus Prize for the FRCO examination as well as the Silver Medal of the Worshipful Company of Musicians.
He was Assistant Organist of St. Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh for four years before his present appointment as Director of Music at Paisley Abbey in 1963. At that time he also joined the staff of the RSAMD where he became Senior Lecturer in Academic Studies as well as teacher of organ. He also had responsibilities for choral activities.
George McPhee has been in frequent demand as an organ recitalist in this country and abroad, particularly in North America, and has broadcast and recorded frequently as a soloist and as a conductor.
As composer and arranger he has many published works, both sacred and secular.
In 1991 he was made a Fellow of the Royal School of Church Music in recognition of his services to church music in Scotland and in 1995 he was awarded an MBE. In July 1997 he was awarded an honorary Doctorate by the University of Paisley.
In 2000 George McPhee was President of the Incorporated Society of Musicians and is currently Professor of Organ at St. Andrews University. He is also a Vice President of the Royal College of Organists.