Jamaican Composers List

With the aid of the JN Foundation, MUJF has undertaken extensive research
into the works of Jamaican composers throughout history.
​See below for a more in-depth look at composers.

CLASSICAL

Samuel Felsted (1743 - 1802)
Sir Frederic Hymen Cowen (1852 - 1935)
Don Shirley (1927 - 2013) 
Oswald Russell  (1933 – 2012)
​Lloyd Hall (1923-2010)
Noel Foster Davis
Olive Lewin  
Major Joe Williams (b. 1933)
Noel Dexter (1938-2019)
Kaestner Robertson
Joy Fairclough (b.1969)
Marjorie Whylie
Paulette Bellamy
Eleanor Alberga (b. 1949)
Peter Ashbourne (b. 1950)
Sharon Calcraft (b. 1955)
Shirley Thompson
Orville Hammond (b. 1955)
Jon Williams (b. 1963)
Franklin Halliburton
Michael Sean Harris
Ted Runcie (b. 1970)
Andrew Marshall (b. 1982)
Stephen Shaw Naar
Mickhail Johnson (b. 1989)
Paul Tucker
Stephen Earl Tucker

PATRIOTIC

Mapletoft Poulle (1923 – 1981)
​Oswald Russell (1933 – 2012)
Astley Clerk
Stanley G. Owen
Robert Lightbourne
Lisa Narcisse
B.C. Reid
Clyde Hoyte (1915-2003)
​Lloyd Hall (1923-2010)
Douglas Forrest
Father Richard Ho Lung
Peter Ashbourne (b. 1950)
Godfrey Taylor
Jon Williams (b. 1963)
Joy Fairclough (b.1969)
Andre Adman

CHURCH

Clyde Hoyte (1915-2003)
​Oswald Russell (1933 – 2012)
Andre Adman
Olive Lewin
Lloyd Hall
Joy Fairclough (b.1969)
Father Richard Ho Lung
Noel Dexter (1938-2019)
Jon Williams (b. 1963)
Douglas Forrest
​Lisa Narcisse
Marjorie Whylie
Barry Chevannes
Godfrey Taylor
Andrew Marshall
Mikhail Johnson
Franklin Halliburton

THEATRE AND DANCE

Father Richard Ho Lung
​Oswald Russell (1933 – 2012)
Peter Ashbourne (b. 1950)
Marjorie Whylie
Jon Williams (b. 1963)
Franklin Halliburton
Michael Holgate
​Noel Dexter (1938-2019)
​Joy Fairclough

PANTOMIME

Mapletoft Poulle
​Oswald Russell (1933 – 2012)
Barbara Ferland
Gloria Lannaman
Noel Dexter (1938-2019)
Boris Gardiner
Peter Ashbourne (b. 1950)
Grub Cooper

FILM & MEDIA

Grub Cooper
Peter Ashbourne
Jon Williams
Boris Gardiner
Richard Patterson
Philip Myers
Rupert Bent Jr.
Jeremy Ashbourne