Daniel Scott is a recorder and medieval keyboard player with a passion for both early and contemporary music. “An exciting and versatile young recorder player, committed to pushing the boundaries of his instrument” (Erik Bosgraaf, 2021), Daniel is pursuing his own musical voice in myriad fields from renaissance consort music to contemporary music theatre productions. Daniel graduated from his Masters in recorder at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam in 2021, for which he was awarded a scholarship from The Countess of Munster Musical Trust. Previously, he graduated from the Royal College of Music London with a First-Class Joint Honours Bachelor’s degree in Flute and Recorder. Daniel won the Royal Overseas League Solo Wind, Brass & Percussion competition 2022 and was a finalist for the Moeck/SRP recorder competition 2021.

Since 2019 Daniel has been a member of The Royal Wind Music, performing concerts across Europe and making appearances on Dutch and German TV and Radio. The group is a recorder double quintet and performs exiting new programmes of renaissance music, completely from memory. Their latest programme is a celebration of the Dutch composer J. P. Sweelinck.

As a soloist Daniel has researched and presented his own unique programmes at the Open Recorder Days Amsterdam Fringe and in the Amsterdam concert series Les Goûts Réunis.

In February 2020 together with Emily Bannister, Anastasia Terranova and Verena Barie, Daniel won Amsterdam’s Grachten Festival prize in the cross-over category for their music theatre performance that fused renaissance and electronic music, The Eternal Feminine. The performances are taking place in the fall of 2021 and are funded by the Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst.

Daniel’s playing is also featured in the recently released blockbuster film, The Green Knight, from director David Lowery. With his recorder quintet Five Spice, Daniel has performed in the Utrecht early Music Fringe, Leipzig International Chamber Music Academy and the Uitmarkt Festival in Amsterdam as well as a tour in Denmark and Austria. Daniel has participated in recorder masterclasses with Pierre Hamon, Maurice Steger, Michael Form, Dorothee Oberlinger, Walter van Hauwe and Paul Leenhouts.

On the flute, Daniel was selected to take part in English National Opera’s orchestral training scheme, ENO Evolve, in 2017. He also took part in Chipping Campden Music Festival Academy Orchestra in 2017. During his studies played under conductors Valdimir Jurowski, Jac van Steen and Jean-François Heisser, as well as in a collaboration between members of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and the Royal College of Music London in 2016.

Daniel also has a keen interest in Yoga and The Alexander Technique.