I run my own business as a music proofreader, editor and setter based in Moseley, Birmingham UK. Having worked for most of my life as a performing classical violinist, I started proofreading for Faber Music Ltd some 30 years ago as a freelancer. I also work for Stainer & Bell. Click here to see a list of all the main compositions I have worked on: Works proofread for Faber Music
I can provide services as a composer, arranger, editor, proofreader or transcriber of music on to Sibelius Ultimate (or earlier versions if required).
Training
Goldsmiths, University of London
Dip. NCOS (National Centre for Orchestral Studies)
Huddersfield University
MA in Musical Composition
The Publishing Training Centre
Essential Proofreading (distinction)
Essential Grammar
Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading
Copyediting 1: Introduction
Copyediting 2: Headway (merit)
Copyediting 3: Progress (distinction)
Word for Practical Editing
Proofreading Theses and Dissertations
Proofreading mentor: Gale Winskill (2022)
I’m deeply grateful to Ivor McGregor for his painstaking work, proofreading the score and parts for a new arrangement of Bach’s Goldberg Variations. Thanks to a forensic eye for detail and his awareness of performers’ needs we have a beautiful set of parts which are clear, accurate and easy to read. It was also enormously helpful and reassuring to have someone so knowledgeable editing the copy for the CD sleeve notes. David Juritz – Violinist
Ivor has just done an absolutely fabulous job at proofreading a Debussy work that I had arranged. He provided a clearly annotated and beautifully detailed score with excellent suggestions on how to get it ready for publication. And he delivered the score in only a couple of days! I am very impressed with his efficiency, his eye for detail and his thoughtful consideration of what I was trying to achieve in the arrangement. I would not hesitate to use his services again, and recommend him unreservedly. Roger Benedict – Viola player and Conductor, Former Principal Viola, Philharmonia Orchestra and Sydney Symphony Orchestra. Currently Head of Viola and Chief Conductor at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music