Scott Davie is well known to audiences throughout Australia as both a soloist and chamber musician. He has released several CDs and his performances have been broadcast on radio and television.
The recipient of numerous awards and prizes, he completed his undergraduate degree at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, where he later completed both a Masters degree and a PhD, focusing on melodic language of Sergei Rachmaninoff. He is currently on the staff of the Australian National University’s School of Music, where he teaches, lectures, and manages the School’s collection of historical pianos, known as the Keyboard Institute.
Scott has made an intensive study into the music of Sergei Rachmaninoff, and his academic research has taken him around the world to perform and lecture on Rachmaninoff’s music. In 2012, Scott performed the original version of Rachmaninoff’s Fourth Piano Concerto (1926) in an Australian première, with Vladimir Ashkenazy and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra at the Sydney Opera House to capacity audiences.
GRAND:
In 2005, Scott collaborated with Graeme Murphy on his production of ‘Grand’ with the Sydney Dance Company. After highly acclaimed performances at the Sydney Opera House, the production toured throughout Australia, and then the following year featured at the Shanghai International Arts Festival, before going on to tour the United States. Scott appeared in The Australian Ballet’s ‘Murphy’ in 2018, in a feature segment from ‘Grand’
RECORDINGS:
On Eternal Love: Romantic Lieder
Released by ABC Classic in 2020, with soprano Taryn Fiebig.
Ngarra-Burria Piyanna: Indigenous composers make an old piano sing
Released by ABC Classic in 2021, featuring new music written for a piano built in 1770
Women of Note: Volume 3
Released in 2021, features Scott’s performance of Elizabeth Sheppard’s Kalgoorli Silky Pear.
Women of Note: Volume 2
Released in 2020, features Scott and Asmira’s recording of Dulcie Holland’s Sonata for Violin and Piano.
Lilacs
Released by ABC Classics in 2002 was Scott’s first solo CD, and features a program of works for piano by Rachmaninoff.
Grand
Released on the Melba label in 2005, features the music from Graeme Murphy’s highly acclaimed production of Grand, a modern dance work with Piano in mind.
Pictures from an Exhibition
Released by ABC Classics in 2006, features Rachmaninoff’s First Piano Sonata, and the recently discovered short piano piece found while researching Rachmaninoff at the Library of Congress archives, Washington D.C.
The Australian Album
Released by the Artworks label in 2000, features violinist Asmira Woodward-Page and Scott Davie on piano performing some early Australian violin and piano music. The album was re-released in 2019.
Reviews:
“Few pianists worldwide would be capable of delivering this music with such technical refinement and luminous musicality.”SSO Limelight:Rachmaninoff’s Fourth Piano Concerto – Sydney Opera House
“Scott Davie, in his excellent performance, makes a convincing case for Rachmaninoff’s original version.”Sydney Morning Herald:Rachmaninoff’s Fourth Piano Concerto – Sydney Opera House
“And as for Scott Davie, well you’d drive a thousand miles to hear him play”.2GB Radio:Grand: Graeme Murphy’s modern ballet with Piano in mind
Over the years Scott’s strong focus on Russian music has motivated him to visit Russia on numerous occasions to further his research.