Breck McGough

​Breck McGough’s award-winning scores have premiered at national and international film and music festivals. He holds undergraduate degrees in both humanities and music education from the University of Central Oklahoma, where he also received his master's degree in music composition. He completed his Doctor of Musical Arts degree at Baylor University, where he was a composition student of Scott McAllister and taught courses in music theory, musicianship, composition, and church music.

In 2024, he was selected as a Composition Fellow by the Catholic Sacred Music Project, where he studied with Sir James MacMillan. The same year, he studied counterpoint and composition with Frank La Rocca after being selected to participate in the Catholic Institute of Sacred Music's Composition Seminar.

Breck has been a freelance singer, pianist, conductor, arranger, and composer for more than two decades and has worked for professional organizations in a variety of capacities. He served as the orchestra conductor for St. Luke's United Methodist Church in Oklahoma City, worked as Composer-in-Residence for The Paramount Theater in Oklahoma City, was a cantor and section leader for many years at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Oklahoma City, and worked as an arranger for the Oklahoma City Philharmonic.  

He and his wife, Laurelin, and their daughter, Odelia, live in Minneapolis, and Breck serves as Director of Sacred Music and Liturgy at St. Gabriel the Archangel Catholic Church in Hopkins, Minnesota.