Maureen McMullan

Producer/Artistic Director

Maureen McMullan is a Scottish soprano, songwriter, arranger, producer, and vocal
pedagogue trained in both classical and contemporary music. Widely recognized for
ik her stylistic versatility, she has appeared as lead vocalist at Symphony Hall with Keith
@ Lockhart and the Boston Pops, Holiday Pops, and Swing Pops, including the world
premiere season performances of Visions of America with compositions by Roger
Kellaway and Alan and Marilyn Bergman; and for the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra with acclaimed
jazz tenor saxophonist Tommy Smith. Her other career highlights include performances at Celtic
Connections; the Montreux Jazz Festival; the Edinburgh Festival Fringe; the PBS music special
Highland Heartbeat; and for Howard Shore's iconic work, The Lord of the Rings Symphony in Six
Movements. Aformer session singer for the BBC, McMullan is an accomplished bandleader and
recently directed and performed the featured musical tribute honoring Emmy-winning documentarian
Ken Burns at the Great Scot Awards in New York City, and as part of a global music diaspora concert for
the Smithsonian Institution's Scots in the American West symposium.

 

McMullan previously served as the assistant chair of the Voice Department at Berklee and as an
associate professor of voice. She earned a bachelor's degree in applied music from the University
of Strathclyde, a professional diploma from Berklee College of Music, and an M.B.A. from the
D'Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University. McMullan is the artist-in-residence
for the National Trust for Scotland Foundation USA and a recipient of the Sir Sean Connery Scottish
International Education Trust (SIET) Arts Award.