Category:Scott, Douglas Walter

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Douglas Walter Scott

(b. 31 December 1978)

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Detailed biography: Douglas Scott was born in Johannesburg, South Africa and started his musical journey at an early age on the piano. At around age ten he took up the flute more seriously and it remained his primary instrument since then. As a teen, he attended the Drakensburg Boys’ Choir School and then the National School of the Arts in Johannesburg, where he had the opportunity to perform as flute soloist with both the Johannesburg Symphony Orchestra and the National Symphony Orchestra. After graduating with a BMus from the University of Pretoria he worked professionally as a flautist and singer for a number of years, performing as bass soloist in the works such as J.S. Bach’s St John’s Passion and Dietrich Buxtehude’s Membra Jesu Nostri. He moved to Singapore while completing his MMus in flute performance through UNISA, where he became involved in amateur dramatics, achieving acclaim in such roles as Van Helsing in Bram Stoker’s Dracula and the Phantom in Stephen Briggs’ and Terry Pratchett’s Maskerade. He has since completed his PhD(music) through the University of the Free State (Odeion)—focusing on a mathematical treatment of the semiotics of musical gesture—and subsequently did postdoctoral year at the Manfred and Penny Conrad Institute for Music Therapy Research (CIMTR) in Waterloo, Canada. Doug is also an active composer and filled various roles (including chairman) with the composer’s organization NewMusicSA, where he curated the 2015 New Music Indaba in Bloemfontein, South Africa. His works so far include “Afrika-dig”, a setting of poems by Lara Kirsten for Mezzo Soprano and large ensemble (with optional dancers), a Keyboard Suite, and a Missa Brevis. Douglas now lives in Fort Frances, Canada, with his wife and two daughters, where he is learning a bit of farming as his ancestors once did while conducting the String Orchestra in the neighbouring US town of International Falls. He enjoys the cultural richness and natural beauty of the region.