José Maceda (1917—2004) was a Filipino composer, ethnomusicologist and university professor whose interdisciplinary works have been performed throughout the world. A number of his works have also been recorded and released via John Zorn's Tzadik label who called him "one of the the most original and underappreciated composers in contemporary music."

Maceda studied piano at the Academy of Music in Manila and later at the École Normale de Musique de Paris and during his early career introduced new works to the Philipines as a performer. He undertook further studies in the USA, studying musicology at Queens College and Columbia University before earning a PhD in ethnomusicology from the University of California. From the early 1950s Maceda devoted his time to ethnomusicological studies of the music of The Philippines and Southeast Asia and composed a number of his own works based on Asian musical practices and folkways.

Today José Maceda's archive is managed by the U.P. Center for Ethnomusicology in Quezon City.