Principal Conductor and Program Director - Douglas Macaulay

Douglas Macaulay

Doug Macaulay works as a Musical Director, Composer, Arranger, Producer, and Educator.  He has composed for a wide variety of genre including band, orchestra, and film scores and dozens of theatrical scores.  His success in live theatre includes the critically acclaimed Whale Riding Weather for which he received a Jesse Richardson Award for outstanding Composition & Sound Design, and the runaway hit The Number 14 which has played around the world, and continues to be in great demand 15 years after it first opened. The Number 14 is currently on a North American Tour which includes stops throughout western Canada, before touring the eastern US and then another run on Broadway in NYC.   

Mr. Macaulay has also worked as a Music Director for the Pacific Music Industry Association, CBC Television and Radio, as director of the Cambie Street Brass Band, the Vancouver Community College Wind Ensemble, and for Theatre Under the Stars. He co-created the Youth Performing Arts program for the Vancouver JCC, spent 6 years as Music Director for “Gotta Sing, Gotta Dance” summer music theatre program, and has directed numerous other instrumental and vocal ensembles. 

Currently, Doug is the co-founder, Artistic & Managing Director of Con Brio Festivals - the producers of the Whistler Music Festival and Sun Peaks Music Festivals, and is sought after as an adjudicator and clinician at music festivals throughout the U.S. and Canada.   Mr. Macaulay recently adjudicated the Pearl City Band Festival in Hawaii where he directed the Pearl City Schools Massed Bands at Aloha Stadium and has directed bands across North America and in Europe.  Mr. Macaulay is Director of the Vancouver Firefighters Band and is now in his 14th year as director of the award winning West Vancouver Youth Band program which has grown from 39 to over 180 musicians.

  “Anyone with a will to learn is a musician of the soul, deserving both encouragement and respect”  -  Philippe Etter