Mr. McMillan completed undergraduate and postgraduate studies in music and education at the University of Toronto. A former director of the Inter-Provincial Music Camp, Principal of the North York Summer Music School as well as past conductor of the Halton and Sheridan Youth Orchestras, Pickering Philharmonic and Havergal and Crescent Chamber String Orchestras, Mr. McMillan has recently retired as currently Curriculum Leader in Arts at York Mills Collegiate in Toronto. He is still active coaching, adjudicating and writing and publishing music for strings orchestra. He has recently been appointed as principal second violin and librarian in the Toronto Community Orchestra.