Sir Peter Maxwell Davies was an English composer and conductor, who in 2004 was made Master of the Queen's Music.
Martyn Bennett was a Canadian-Scottish musician who was influential in the evolution of modern Celtic fusion, a blending of traditional Celtic and modern music. He was a piper, violinist, composer and producer. Diagnosis of serious illness at the age of thirty curtailed his live performances, although he completed a further two albums in the studio. He died from cancer in 2005, fifteen months after release of his fifth album Grit.
The Scottish Chamber Orchestra (SCO) is an Edinburgh-based UK chamber orchestra. One of Scotland's five National Performing Arts Companies, the SCO performs throughout Scotland, including annual tours of the Scottish Highlands and Islands and South of Scotland. The SCO appears regularly at the Edinburgh, East Neuk, St Magnus and Aldeburgh Festivals and The Proms. The SCO's international touring receives support from the Scottish Government. The SCO rehearses mainly at Edinburgh's Queen's Hall.
Thomas Wilson CBE FRSE was an American-born Scottish composer of classical music.
Richard Demarco CBE is a Scottish artist and promoter of the visual and performing arts.
Nicola Joy Nadia Benedetti is an Italian-Scottish classical solo violinist and festival director. Her ability was recognised when she was a child, including the award of BBC Young Musician of the Year when she was 16. She works with orchestras in Europe and America as well as with Alexei Grynyuk, her regular pianist. Since 2012, she has played the Gariel Stradivarius violin. She became the first woman to lead the Edinburgh International Festival when she was made Festival Director on 1 October 2022.
Sarah Frances Beamish is a British composer and violist. Her works include chamber, vocal, choral and orchestral music. She has also worked in the field of music, theatre, film and television, as well as composing for children and for her local community.
Susan Gritton is an English operatic soprano. She was the 1994 winner of the Kathleen Ferrier Award and has sung leading roles in a wide-ranging repertoire from Handel and Mozart to Britten, Janáček and Strauss.
David Fung is a concert pianist. Fung was born in Sydney, Australia.
Raymond Hyam Cohen was an English classical violinist.
Helen Grime is a Scottish composer of contemporary classical music. Her work, Virga, was selected as one of the best ten new classical works of the 2000s by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra.
Carol Colburn Grigor, previously Carol Hogel, is an American philanthropist and former concert pianist who has donated more than $40 million by one estimate and £100 million by another to the arts in Britain.
Vanessa Benelli Mosell is an Italian pianist and conductor.
Hester Dickson Martineau was a celebrated Scottish pianist and pedagogue who was born in Edinburgh.
John Martin Dalby was a Scottish composer and music administrator. He was Head of Music at BBC Scotland from 1972 to 1991.
Marjory Dougal was a highly respected and influential administrator and vice-president of the Edinburgh Youth Orchestra for thirty years.
Luigi Umberto "Bert" Demarco was a Scottish professional snooker player and billiard hall owner. He competed at the World Amateur Snooker Championship several times, and was a professional snooker player from 1981 to 1993.
Beibei Wang is a Chinese multi-percussionist living in London. She has been a soloist with the BBC Concert Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra and others. She was a jury member for the BBC Young Musician competition.
Daphne Godson, LRAM was an international award winning violinist and co-founder of the Scottish Baroque Ensemble.
The Saxophone Concerto is a composition for soprano saxophone and string orchestra by the Scottish composer James MacMillan. The work was composed in 2017 on a commission from Perth Concert Hall, the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, and the Aurora Orchestra. Its world premiere was given by the Australian saxophonist Amy Dickson and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra conducted by Joseph Swensen at Perth Concert Hall on 11 April 2018.
