Edward McGuire, born in Glasgow UK in 1948, studied with James Iliff at the Royal Academy of Music, London, from 1966 to 1970 and with Ingvar Lidholm in Stockholm in 1971.

His large scale works include the 3 act ballet 'Peter Pan' (1989) for Scottish Ballet and Hong Kong Ballet; a 3 act opera 'The Loving of Etain' (for Paragon Opera 1990, to a libretto by Marianne Carey) and 'A Glasgow Symphony'. His CDs on Delphian Records, “Eddie McGuire — Music for Flute, Guitar and Piano” and "Entangled Fortunes" achieved Editor’s Choice in the 2006 and 2015 Awards Issues of Gramophone Magazine. He won a British Composers Award in 2003 and a Creative Scotland Award 2004. His 'Five Stars in Auriga' were recorded on CD by Alba Brass in 2019 and 'Songs from the North' by The Wallace Collection Ensemble with Julia Daramy Williams soprano in 2020.

He has been featured composer at several festivals including Bath International Guitar Festival 1996, International Viola Congress 1998, Edinburgh International Harp Festival and Passau Saiten Guitar Festival 2016. His 'Encores En Suite' was performed live in 2010 on In Tune on BBC Radio 3 to celebrate 75 years of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and his Three Donne Lyrics were featured on BBC Radio 3 in January 2021 by Petroc Trelawny in a Paisley Abbey Choir recording.