Mac McClure nunca ha ganado una competencia famosa de piano, tal vez porque nunca ha hecho parte de alguna. Durante sus estudios en la academia Marshal, leyó la obra completa del Quijote de Cervantes, lo cual no mejoró su forma de tocar el piano, pero sí le dio claridad sobre su superioridad frente a sus colegas, quienes practicaban más horas que él.
Ha sido reconocido por su manera excepcional de tocar el piano y en ello ha impresionado a muchos. Esto es algo que se puede sacrificar a veces, cuando aparecen amigos, museos y puestas de sol espectaculares, o si esto involucra también una cena con amigos y un buen vino, pues McClure cree que la vida se vive más que se practica.
Disfruta mucho el trabajo con cantantes, pues ama la poesía. Ha trabajado por esto con famosas cantantes como Nancy Herrera, Veronica Villarroel o Norah Amsellem y otras menos famosas e igualmente estupendas.
Estudió con Alicia de Larrocha y Carlota Garriga en la Academia Marshal (fundada por Enrique Granados en 1901) en Barcelona. Alicia fue una maestra exigente, pero esto es lógico para él, si bien ella nunca estaba satisfecha son su propia manera de tocar, ¡a pesar de ser una gran pianista! Carlota Garriga tuvo otro abordaje en la enseñanza, el cual comenzaba con un “no está mal”, que en todo caso siempre le hizo sentirse mejor.
Nació en Florida, lo cual parece irrelevante, ya que nunca toco el piano al nacer allí.
Among his more than 40 CD recordings, the world's first recording of the songs of Isaac Albéniz and the coordination of the recording of the complete works of Xavier Montsalvatge's music are worth mentioning. His first solo piano CD was dedicated to the piano transcriptions of Bach's music by Lizst, Saint-Saens and Busoni. The first world recording by Mac McClure of the quintet Op. 49 by Enrique Granados received excellent reviews in Gramaphone (2002) and International Record Review. All these are productions by Columna Música. His last recording was the Robert Gerhard's Melodies with mezzo soprano Nancy Herrera. Together with Albert Moraleda he founded the record label Klassic Cat, which already has 12 titles on the market.
With Editorial Boileau he has published piano music, vocal music, and chamber music by Joaquim Cassado, Joan Comellas, Enric Granados, Isaac Albeniz and Robert Gerhard.
He was director of the first Medellín International Festival and director of the Festival d'Estiu in Sitges. He has organized two weeks of Catalan culture with the EAFIT University and the University of Antioquia and in collaboration with the Bolivar Foundation in Quito, Ecuador.
He performs frequently in Spain and Europe. Thus he made his debut at the Perelada International Festival in an avant garde production by Carlos Santos of Rossini's Barber of Seville. He has performed at the festivals of Camprodon, Torella de Montgri, Girona, Pals, Alicante, Madrid, Granada, Dusseldorf, Munich.
He returns to the United States two or three times a year to give concerts and master classes at universities such as Michagan Ann Arbor and Kalamazoo, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Greenville, Queens College, University of Arizona and at conservatories such as Julliard School of Music. He made his debut in Sydney, Australia in 2013.
Since 2010, he has been associate professor and director of the Master's Degree in Piano Studies at the National University of Colombia. In August 2011, he was appointed director of the National Conservatory of Colombia, a position he held until July 2014. In 2012, the Master's Degree in Symphonic Conducting was founded and he was its director until 2015. In January 2013, he was appointed member of the board of directors of the Orquesta Filarmónica de Bogotá.
For the celebration of the Granados years 2016-2017, he gave recitals in Australia (April), in the United States (May), in Hungary and Spain (June), and in Argentina. In 2017, he gave performances in the United States, in Serbia, in Scotland and England, in Ecuador and in China.
