Scott is a London-based freelance conductor, percussionist and teacher. He is music director
of both Hounslow Symphony Orchestra and the Imperial College String Ensemble, a founding member of the percussion group Sankorfa and Head of Percussion at Dame Alice Owen's School. As an instrumentalist he
has performed with some of the United Kingdom's leading ensembles and musicians. He is also a Fellow in conducting at
the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
Born in Australia,
Scott moved to the United Kingdom to study at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Following his completion of a First
Class honours degree he undertook a Masters in Advanced Musical Studies (Theory and Analysis and Performance Studies) at Royal
Holloway, University of London. In addition to studying conducting, performance and musicology, Scott also studied piano,
voice and Italian. He is an alumnus of the Accademia Musicale Chigiana of Siena, Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme, Cheltenham
Festival Academy and the Young Musicians Symphony Orchestra.
Following
his studies he was appointed Artist in Residence at the Guildhall School. Scott has conducted works from every major period
since the baroque as well as a number of premieres. He is passionate about of a wide repertoire, but is especially dedicated
to the music of the Classical and Early Romantic periods and the music of European and British composers of the first half
of the 20thcentury Scott is a dedicated teacher, and has given workshops for the Barbican Centre, Aldeburgh
Young Musicians Programme, the Junior Departments of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the Trinity College of Music.
He reads widely and undertakes research with particular
emphasis on the question 'What can be the role of Western art music within contemporary/future society?'
