Alan A. Craig

Alan A Craig MBE is a composer, music director and educator based in Glasgow, Scotland. He has led the music department at Glasgow Clyde College since 2002 and is a music graduate of the Universities of both Glasgow and Strathclyde. Alan's compositions and arrangements, including the children’s opera The Nicht’s the Nicht! and choral masterwork, A Diminished Mass, have been performed and broadcast across the world and appeared in numerous television and film productions. Alan has been Musical Director of over 100 stage and concert productions and performed with elite ensembles such as the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra of London, and City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. He has accompanied and coached West End and television stars, performed on-screen himself in the iconic comedy Still Game and even with the tour support for Dame Shirley Bassey. Much of Alan’s music has been created for performance by The Springfield Cambridge Festival Chorus and Orchestra. This organization, which he founded in 2002, brings together hundreds of performers in concerts that simultaneously raise money for charity and give well-trained community musicians the opportunity to perform alongside top industry professionals. Their annual Christmas concerts in the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall have raised over £500,000 to date for Children’s Hospices Across Scotland. In recognition of this work Alan received the Paul Harris Fellowship from Rotary International in June 2011 and was appointed MBE by HM King Charles III in his 2026 New Year’s Honours list.