Scott Wilson
Key details:
- Department:
- Guildhall Young Artists | Junior Guildhall
- Role:
- Conducting Teaching Staff
Biography
London-based Australian conductor Scott Wilson is Head of Orchestral Studies for the OAcademy Conservatory, Director of the Carlos Miguel Prieto Conducting Fellowship, and is a conducting teacher within the Youth and Adult Learning Department at Guildhall School of Music & Drama. In addition to teaching students world-wide, through his online studio, he has taught at the Royal College of Music, Trinity College of Music Junior Department, and the Aldeburgh Young Musicians Programme. Also he has worked as an Associate Conductor of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain.
His work as an educator is underpinned by the manual on conducting technique which he has written over the past decade. In addition, he has written a book on audience engagement for orchestras - You ain’t heard nothin’ yet: The Potential of Orchestral Music. During the pandemic this was developed into the podcast A Thousand Pictures.
Previously he was Zander Fellow with the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, Artist in Residence and Conducting Fellow at Guildhall School of Music & Drama. His musicianship is founded on the pedagogical traditions of Ilya Musin and Nadia Boulanger, which he received under the mentorship of his principal teachers Sian Edwards and Norman Beedie. He studied with Kurt Masur in Sweden, Gianluigi Gelmetti in Italy, Johannes Fritzsch in Australia, and Ed Spanjaard in Hungary. Recently he made his debut at Opera Holland Park, conducting Mark Adamo’s Little Women.
In his former career as a percussionist he specialised in contemporary solo and chamber repertoire. He worked with the Australian World Orchestra, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Shakespeare Company, and at the Royal National Theatre, recorded chamber music for the BBC, and performed at contemporary music festivals throughout Europe.