Jamaican Composers

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
Joseph B. Williams (b. 1933)
Noel Dexter
Kaestner Robertson
Joy Fairclough (b.1969)
Marjorie Whylie
Paulette Bellamy
Eleanor Alberga (b. 1949)
Peter Ashbourne (b. 1950)
Sharon Calcraft (b. 1955)
Shirley Thompson
Ted Runcie (b. 1970)
Orville Hammond (b. 1955)
Jon Williams (b. 1963)
Franklin Halliburton
Michael Sean Harris
Andrew Marshall (b. 1982)
Stephen Shaw Naar
Mickhail Johnson (b. 1989)
Paul Tucker
Stephen Earl Tucker
Hermann Wilson

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
Jon Williams (b. 1963)
Peter Ashbourne (b. 1950)
Godfrey Taylor
Joy Fairclough (b.1969)
Andre Adman

CHURCH

Clyde Hoyte
Oswald Russell (1933 – 2012)
Andre Adman
Olive Lewin
Lloyd Hall
Joy Fairclough (b.1969)
Father Richard Ho Lung
Noel Dexter
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
Joy Fairclough

PANTOMIME

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