Scott Wilson

Scott is an Artist in Residence at London’s Guildhall School of Music and Drama where his responsibilities include performing and teaching. Born in Australia, he moved to the United Kingdom to study at the Guildhall School. He received a First Class Honours degree from this institution and then completed a Masters in Advanced Musical Studies (Theory and Analysis and Performance Studies) at Royal Holloway, University of London. Scott studied percussion, conducting, piano, theory, and voice with numerous teachers including John Arcaro, Michael Barker, Norman Beedie, Richard Benjafield, David Corkhill, Sian Edwards, Steve Falk, John Rink, Michael Skinner, and Diana Stuart.

Scott performed Sofia Gubaidulina’s Galgenlieder à 3 at a Barbican Centre festival dedicated to the composer’s music, he regularly performs the solo percussion work Zyklus by Karlheinz Stockhausen, and he recently performed in the Royal National Theatre’s production of Every Good Boy Deserves Favour. As a conductor he has performed works from each major period since the Baroque, including several world premieres. Works he has conducted include Haydn’s Creation, Ravel’s Rapsodie Espagnole, Stravinsky’s Dumbarton Oaks and Histoire du Soldat (The Soldier’s Tale). Recently he was a student of Maestro Gianluigi Gelmetti at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana of Siena, and will continue his studies with him in the summer of 2010. During the 2009 / 2010 season Scott’s repertoire will focus on works by the 18th and 19th Century Viennese Masters, in particular the works of Beethoven, Haydn, and Mozart. Recently he was appointed as Musical Director of the Imperial College String Ensemble.

Scott is also a dedicated teacher—he currently has around fifteen private students—and has given workshops for the Aldeburgh Young Musicians Programme and the Junior Departments of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the Trinity College of Music. Furthermore, he reads widely and undertakes various research projects. His current research takes as its starting point the question: ‘What can be the role of Western art music within contemporary / future society?’

Contact Scott at:

scott@sankorfa.com