BIOGRAPHY

Dave McLellan has performed in the U.S., South America, Great Britain, and Europe since 1976, including debut and chamber appearances in Jordan Hall, Carnegie Hall, Merkin Hall, and Wigmore Hall (London). Beginning in 1981, he lived a double life as software engineer and concert guitarist with duo partner Neil Anderson. The Anderson-McLellan Duo gave several hundred concerts throughout the 1980’s, including two concert tours of Great Britain, and festival performances in the US and South America.  Supported grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the D ’Addario Foundation, they gave their farewell performance in November 1989 in Merkin Hall, New York, in a program of American duo guitar music, including 3 premiers performances.

 

Mr. McLellan’s collaborators include the late guitarist/composers Frank Wallace and Edward Flower, the Serata String Quartet, sopranos Rebecca Grimes and Rebekah Alexander, contralto Emily Marvosh (Handel & Haydn Society, Lorelei), mezzo-soprano Fanny Lora, trombonist Tommy Chiu, flutist Tracy Kraus, violinists Emil Altschuler and Judith Eissenberg, cellist Seth McLeod, and pianist/composer Trevor Berens. He has performed as soloist with the Lincoln-Sudbury Civic Orchestra, Claflin Hill Symphony Orchestra, and the Narragansett Bay Orchestra.  He has recorded on Music Minus One with Edward Flower.

 

Mr. McLellan has served on the faculties of The Hartt School and the University of Connecticut, where he also performed regularly with Edward Flower. He has served on the faculty of the Performing Arts Center Metrowest, the Town of Harvard Artist in Residence program. He is a self-taught free-lance timpanist and mallet percussionist and has appeared with community and professional orchestras in the Metrowest Boston area. He is timpanist/percussionist, publicist, guitar soloist and chamber music coordinator of the Lincoln-Sudbury Civic Orchestra, in residence at Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School. Mr. McLellan started the trombone at age 65 and currently performs with the Groton Hill New Horizons Wind Ensemble.

 

Having been raised by a pathological philanthropist, Mr. McLellan is committed to using music to change lives and help charitable causes.  In 1998, he founded and continues to perform in Concert in Your Living Room, a service dedicated to helping non-profits raise funds. In 1996, he established the David S. and Margaret McLellan Endowment for Performance Outreach at The Hartt School.  While he served on the Hartt School Board of Trustees in Audience Development (2015-2021), he created and curated the first six seasons of the popular Hartt@Home program, an initiative that brought Hartt students, faculty, and alumni performers into private homes for intimate performance experiences. Hartt@Home served over 2300 listeners in its six seasons, one living room (or Zoom call) at a time.  He currently serves on the Boards of Directors of the Boston Classical Guitar Society, and the Performing Arts Center Metrowest in Framingham.