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Monica Scott
Monica Scott has performed throughout the United States, in almost every European country, Argentina, Canada and South Korea, engaging audiences with her energetic, eloquent playing. With a stylistic range that includes historically informed performances on baroque cello, all music from the classic and romantic eras, to the less charted territories of twentieth and twenty-first century avant-garde and improvised music, Ms. Scott has enjoyed a varied career both abroad and in her native California.
She holds degrees from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and the Sweelinck Conservatorium Amsterdam. After an artist residency at the Banff Centre (Canada) in 1994, Ms. Scott performed for four seasons with the Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa in Portugal, with whom she also appeared as concerto soloist. Since moving to the Bay Area in 1998, Ms. Scott has been actively promoting new music, as a member of sfSound, and performing with Composers’ Inc, the Composers Alliance, and in numerous chamber music groups. Most recently, Ms. Scott was the cellist with the Del Sol String Quartet, with whom she developed an artistic vision that was recognized with two consecutive awards for Adventurous Programming by Chamber Music America and ASCAP.
Ms. Scott is also an enthusiastic educator; besides teaching at Crowden, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and privately, she coaches chamber music, and leads innovative workshops in creative music-making to both children and teachers. In 2006 she and pianist Hadley McCarroll founded the duo martha & monica.