Scottish Music Centre - Industry Directory

Artists | Classical | Mixed Duos

Over the past 4 years Two’s Company has introduced a new audience to Scotland’s contemporary music through their critically acclaimed concerts on the first Saturday of every month at the Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow. The success of these concerts has led to many new chamber works being written for them, two well received recordings, broadcasts on BBC radio, collaborations with international musicians such as their sold out concerts with the Japanese shakuhachi player, Joji Hirota, as part of Japan 2001 and the expansion of their concert series to now include Edinburgh.

Hector Scott (violin)
born in Edinburgh in 1969, won all the string prizes at the RSAMD in Glasgow before going to Switzerland on a Caird Travelling Scholarship to study with Max Rostal and then to the New England Conservatory, Boston, USA, where he won the Concerto Club of Boston Prize, the Margaret Spanel Prize and led the NEC Honors Quartet. He now leads the Saltire Quartet and is a frequent guest on Television and BBC Radio. He is Head of Strings at George Watson’s College, Edinburgh and serves on the Music Advisory Committee for the Caird Travelling Scholarships Trust.
Recordings are: “GOMA”; “Working Through”; “Breath of June”; “Under the Hammer”; and “Sound Asleep” for Adults, Seniors and Babies, of which “Sound Asleep for Babies” won the Classical Music Magazine’s Record of the Year award in 1993.

His previous Concerto performances have been with the Meadows Chamber Orchestra, the Edinburgh Symphony Orchestra and the Dundee Symphony Orchestra.

Shinobu Miki (clarinet)
Born in Kobe, Japan in 1970. After winning the Gold Medal in the Kansai Youth Competition for Winds and Percussion, she went on to study at the Toho Music College in Tokyo and then to the New England Conservatory in Boston, where she studied with William Wrzesien and played with the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra. Now domiciled in Scotland since her marriage to Hector Scott, she plays regularly in the Chrysanth Trio and as soloist with the Saltire Quartet, inaugurating the Kinghorn Festival and returning the next year to play a piece written especially for her by David Ward which she has recorded on the CD, “Under the Hammer”.