- MacMillan studied composition at the Universites of Edinburgh and of Durham.
- MacMillan’s music is influenced by an unusual mix of atonal 20th-C. modernism and minimalist religious mysticism.1
Sources
- Stephen Johnson, “MacMillan, James,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed November 13, 2019, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000048182.