Graham Scott has firmly established himself as one of Britain’s leading pianists.  He has been the recipient of numerous first prizes in national and international competitions notably the 1991 Young Concert Artists International Auditions in New York, the 1991 Jaén International Piano Competition in Spain, the 1989 Young Concert Artists Trust Auditions in London and the 1988 Dudley National Piano Competition.  In 1999 he was awarded a career grant from the Yvonne Léfébure Foundation in Paris for the purchase of a Steinway grand piano.

He studied under the distinguished Polish pianist Ryszard Bakst (a student of Heinrich Neuhaus) at Chetham’s School of Music and at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, being awarded the Dayas Gold Medal in 1991, an award made quadrennially to a graduating pianist.  In 1990 he won the Stefania Niekrasz Prize, an inter-collegiate award made every five years to an outstanding exponent of Chopin. 

In October 1989, Graham Scott made his formal début at the Wigmore Hall and has since become known to London audiences, having re-appeared at the hall on numerous occasions as both recitalist and chamber musician.  He has established himself as a versatile pianist appearing regularly in major venues such as the Royal Festival Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall and Barbican Centre in London, Symphony Hall in Birmingham, Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, Philharmonic Hall in Liverpool, Royal Concert Hall in Glasgow, Waterfront Hall in Belfast and Queen’s Hall and Festival Theatre in Edinburgh.

He made his débuts in New York at the 92^nd St. Y and in Washington DC at the Kennedy Center under the auspices of Young Concert Artists in 1992 to critical acclaim.  He has gone on to perform recitals and concertos and to lead artist-in-residence activities throughout the United States.  Venues include the Ambassador Auditorium in Los Angeles, Princeton University, Washington State University, the Kravis Center, Western Michigan University, Madison Civic Center, Clemson University, University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point, Potsdam College at SUNY, Xavier University Piano Series, South West Missouri State University, University of Athens, the Phillips Collection, UC Davis and the Riverside County Philharmonic among others.  Graham Scott gave his first performances in Japan through YCA playing in Suntory Hall, Tokyo and in Nagoya and Osaka.

Graham Scott received critical acclaim when he replaced Martha Argerich at short notice with the Staatsphilharmonie Rheinlandpfalz in Germany playing Haydn’s D major concerto and Richard Strauss’ Burleske.  He was invited back the following season to play Liszt’s second concerto in a tour of the Rhine region of Germany.

As a soloist, Graham Scott has performed with many of the world’s leading orchestras, notably the London Philharmonic, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, St Louis Symphony Orchestra, New York Chamber Symphony, Royal Scottish National, Belgium National Symphony, Monte Carlo Philharmonic, Ulster, Singapore Symphony, Radio Netherlands Chamber, Pusan Philharmonic in Korea, Santa Barbara Chamber, South African National Symphony and Cape Town Symphony Orchestras.  He has worked with such conductors as Marin Alsop, Carl St. Clare, Thomas Conlin, Paul Daniel, Sir Charles Groves, Bernhard Klee, Alexander Lazarev, Gregorz Nowak, Heiichiro Ohyama and Barry Wordsworth.

As a chamber musician, Graham Scott has performed at the Huntington Chamber Music Festival in Australia with members of the Australian Chamber Orchestra.   He has also collaborated with the Vertavo String Quartet, Stamic Quartet of Prague, Galliard Wind Quintet, violinists Marat Bisengaliev and Rachel Isserlis, flautist Jean Ferrandis, cellist Henri Demarquette and oboist Owen Dennis.

Graham Scott has appeared at numerous festivals worldwide including the Chopin Festival in Paris at Bagatelle, the Flanders Festival in Belgium, the Rutgers Summerfest in New York, and festivals in the UK in Bury St Edmonds, Brighton and Chester. He has given other recitals in all five continents.

He has given numerous broadcasts on BBC Radio 3, the BBC World Service and Classic FM in England and has appeared on networks in Australia (ABC), South Africa (SABC), Holland (AVRO TV), France (France 3) and Belgium. In the USA Graham Scott has appeared on National Public Radio including the Performance Today programme and on other regional networks.  Commercially, he has released a Scriabin CD on Gamut Classics, Live in Los Angeles on the Master Musicians label and a Gershwin CD on the Deux-Elles label.

Graham Scott is Associate Professor of Piano and Chair of the Piano Department at the Chicago College of the Performing Arts at Roosevelt University.  He has previously held the position of visiting lecturer in keyboard studies at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow.  He has given masterclasses, adjudications, and taken part in other artist-in-residence activities at major conservatories and universities worldwide including the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, Estonian Academy of Music in Tallinn, Lithuanian Academy of Music in Vilnius, University of Chicago and the University of Melbourne.