McAllister, Rita, 1946-

Margaret (Rita) McAllister is a Scottish musicologist, composer and academic.  She was brought up in Lanarkshire and studied music at the University of Glasgow and the Royal Scottish Academy of Music where she studied piano with Wight Henderson.  Rita studied composition with Robin Orr and Anthony Hedges, became a renowned expert on Prokofiev and achieved a PhD at the University of Cambridge.  In 1969 she joined the staff at the Faculty of Music at the University of Edinburgh as a lecturer in composition, history of music and analysis, where she established an electronic music studio and introduced a course in Music Technology.  In 1986 she was appointed Director of Music at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music in Glasgow and from 1996 to 2006 she was additionally Vice-Principal.

• Rita McAllister (Wikipedia)