Glenn McClure, Composer

Glenn McClure travels the world, seeking the musical voice of the Earth. He listens to the natural world and the people who study it and live within it.

  • “Encountering the music of Glenn McClure is pure joy as a performer. it is mesmerizing to hear and sing while riding the edge of an excitement that leaves you wanting more.”
    Kearstin Piper Brown
    Metropolitan Opera Soprano
  • “Encountering the music of Glenn McClure is pure joy as a performer. it is mesmerizing to hear and sing while riding the edge of an excitement that leaves you wanting more.”
    Kearstin Piper Brown
    Metropolitan Opera Soprano

Events

    • “Glenn’s music makes us feel like better musicians and better citizens of the world.”
      Eric Townell
      Rochester Oratorio Society
    • “Glenn’s music makes us feel like better musicians and better citizens of the world.”
      Eric Townell
      Rochester Oratorio Society

    Composing + Speaking

    Projects

    • Pulling the Thread – A Clara Barton Story

      Glenn McClure’s new folk music opera traces Clara Barton’s recovery from PTSD in Livingston County and the founding of the American Red Cross — told through folk music and shaped by community.”

    • “Glenn is an architect of emotion…”
      “Glenn est un architecte de l’émotion…”
      Francois Ponsot
      Choeur Tongues Joviales, France
    • “Glenn is an architect of emotion…”
      “Glenn est un architecte de l’émotion…”
      Francois Ponsot
      Choeur Tongues Joviales, France

    Voices of Inspiration

    • “McClure’s earnest, honest, and fervent passion combines the serious rigors of opera with the purpose of integrating communities…”
      Louis Lohraseb, Assistant Conductor
      Los Angeles Opera
    • “McClure’s earnest, honest, and fervent passion combines the serious rigors of opera with the purpose of integrating communities…”
      Louis Lohraseb, Assistant Conductor
      Los Angeles Opera