Scott Borg
July 10th 2011, 4pm
Praised as a guitarist with “enormous facility on the guitar, a fluent technique, who plays with total confidence and professional expertise, panache and artful spontaneity”, by Grammy Award-winning guitarist Sharon Isbin, Australian classical guitarist Scott Borg performs extensively as a soloist and chamber musician, he has been a featured artist at major concert halls such as Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center and New York’s Apollo Theatre with rock legend Carlos Alomar. As a winner of Artists International, he made his Carnegie Hall debut at Weill Recital Hall where New York Concert Review described his performance as “well balanced, gracefully presented, and expertly played”. Previous engagements have included performances and masterclasses at the Merida International Guitar Festival in Yucatan, Mexico, ICPNA International Guitar Festival in Lima Peru, Shell Darwin International Festival Australia, the 92nd Street Y, New York City Classical Guitar Society and Sydney Classical Guitar Society. A recipient of many awards and grants, he has received the Augustine Guitar Foundation Award, Nescafe Big Break, and the Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship. He has also been a multiple winner of the Dame Joan Sutherland Award from the American-Australian Association, and the Skills and Arts Development from the Australia Council for the Arts. By the age of 16, he held both the Licentiate Diploma (L.Mus.A) and Associate Diploma with Distinction (A.Mus.A) from the Australian Music Examinations Board, and further went on to receive the Australian Music Examination Boards highest honour, the Fellowship in Music, Australia (F.Mus.A) in 2002 where he was the sole recipient throughout Australasia. He has been a prize winner in several international competitions including the Aaron Brock Memorial International Competition and the VII Texas International Guitar Competition. Currently a candidate in the Doctorate of Musical Arts program at New England Conservatory in Boston under the tutelage of Maestro Eliot Fisk, he previously completed his Artist Diploma from Yale University School of Music, Masters of Music from The Juilliard School, and Bachelor of Creative Arts with First Class Honours graduating valedictorium in music performance from the University of Wollongong. Scott began his guitar studies at the age of 7 with his father Victor, and was soon after accepted into the young artists program at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. His teachers have included Grammy Award winning guitarist Sharon Isbin, and critically acclaimed guitarists Benjamin Verdery and Gregory Pikler. He has performed in master classes with leading guitarists such as John Williams, Pepe Romero, David Russell, Aldo Minella, Hopkinson Smith, and Carlos Barbosa-Lima.
An advocate of music outreach and education, he will serve as Artistic Director of the Boston Guitar Project for the 2008-2010 seasons and in association with the BCGS, is Founder and Conductor of the Boston Guitar Orchestra. He is currently on faculty at the New York City Guitar School and at the New York Conservatory of Music. For more information please see www.scottborgguitar.com
