Iain Masson (born Dundee, 1981) is a freelance composer, conductor and music educator. He is a music graduate of Royal Birmingham Conservatoire and the Royal Northern College of Music. He is a member of the Independent Society of Musicians and a Fellow of the Guild of Musicians and Singers.

 

Iain's compositions have been performed live on BBC Radio 3's 'In Tune' and abroad. Venues include Brighton Corn Exchange, Bridgewater Hall, BBC Broadcasting House, the Jacqueline du Pré Music Building, King's Place, The Octagon Queen Mary University London, the Italian Culture Institute Stockholm, the Royal Swedish Opera and the Regent Hall London. 

His principal tutors were Professor John Mayer and Professor Adam Gorb. He was mentored privately in conducting, player management and coaching by Richard Evans. Iain's brass teacher was Mike Robertson and he studied piano with Maureen Rutherford, Pauline Robertson and Kathleen Renilson. His community music mentor was Kate Luxmoore.

​

In education, Iain has delivered music education work for Diaspora Arts, Musicate, Creative Partnerships, Telford and Wrekin Music, Wolverhampton City Council, Bilston Education Action Zone, Barnardo's, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and the Hallé Orchestra, for whom he was Assistant Trainee Composer on the Eighth Door education project in Salford. He is a former Resident Pianist of the Swallow Hotel Dundee and Bar Epernay in the Mailbox, Birmingham. 

Prizes include the RNCM Alan Rawsthorne Composition Prize 2005, the Dr. Kenneth Ruark Memorial Award for Citizenship, the Evelyn Forbes Ruark Memorial Scholarship for Solo Piano Performance, the Dr. and Mrs. William Christie Piano Trio Rosebowl and the Miss K.H. McLauchlan Cup for Piano Performance. In 2015 he was proudly conferred with Honorary Membership of Birmingham Conservatoire (HonBC) for services to music in the ten years following graduation.