'''Sir Brian John McMaster''' CBE (born 9 May 1943)<ref name=Birth>{{cite web|title=Birthdays today|url= https://www.telegraph.co.uk/archive/2013-5-9.html |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130509002842/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/archive/2013-5-9.html |url-status= dead |archive-date= 9 May 2013 |work=The Telegraph|accessdate=29 April 2014|date=9 May 2013|quote=Sir Brian McMaster, Director, Edinburgh International Festival, 1991–2006, 70 }}</ref> is an English arts administrator from Hitchin.
== Major positions == * Managing director at the Welsh National Opera (1976–1991) * Director of the Edinburgh International Festival (1991–2006) === Edinburgh === McMaster moved all of the Edinburgh International Festival staff from London to the Scottish capital and appointed Joanna Baker as director of marketing and public affairs. During his tenure, the Empire Theatre on the Southside was acquired and refurbished as the Festival Theatre, opening in 1994 with Scottish Opera's ''Tristan and Isolde''.<ref>McCrone, David (2022), ''Who Runs Edinburgh?'', Edinburgh University Press, pp. 104 & 105, {{isbn|9781474498319}}</ref> Theatre productions included a revival of C.P. Taylor's ''Good'', directed by Michael Boyd.<ref>Edwards, Owen Dudley,"Cradle on the Tree-Top: the Edinburgh Festival and Scottish Theatre", in Stevenson, Randall (ed.) (1996), ''Scottish Theatre Since the Seventies'', Edinburgh University Press, p. 39, {{isbn|0748607811}}</ref>
He received an Honorary Doctorate from Heriot-Watt University in 2000<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www1.hw.ac.uk/graduation/honorary-graduates.htm|title = Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh: Honorary Graduates|last = |website = www1.hw.ac.uk|access-date = 2016-04-04|archive-date = 2016-04-18|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160418163907/http://www1.hw.ac.uk/graduation/honorary-graduates.htm|url-status = dead}}</ref>
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== External links == * [https://web.archive.org/web/20120529231649/http://www.rcs.ac.uk/aboutus/governors/sirbrianmcmaster.html Short bio at Royal conservatoire of Scotland]
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