Staff Details

Scott Hill has taught students ranging in age from six to seventy for over 25 years. He has given hundreds of educational concerts and lectures as well as holding residencies at festivals, schools, colleges, and universities throughout the US, Canada, and Europe. His students have gone on to study at major universities and conservatories and have won guitar competitions in the US and abroad.

Scott has performed with orchestras, choirs, instrumentalists, and vocalists throughout Canada, the United States, Europe, and South America as a soloist and chamber musician.  As a member of the Alturas Duo and as a soloist, Mr. Hill has premiered more than seventy pieces of new music including the Canadian premiere of Richard Harvey’s, “Concerto Antico for Guitar and Small Orchestra”, has won the Chamber Music America/ASCAP Adventurous Programming award, a New Music USA commissioning grant, is a laureate winner of the 2020 World Folk Vision Awards, and is a Canada Arts Council recipient. He has collaborated with a wide range of instrumentalists and ensembles including; bandoneon player, Daniel Binelli, Cuarteto Latinoamericano, the Fairfax Symphony Orchestra, and the Voce Choir of Hartford. He has recorded for NAXOS, Ravello, Brioso and Con Brio records and has recently premiered chamber music by Karina Contreras and music for solo guitar by David MacBride, Javier Farías, Sergio Berchenko, and…Scott Hill!

In addition to his work with Alturas Duo, he has been a Play USA Carnegie Hall Lead Teaching Artist and currently maintains a private teaching studio in Stamford, CT. Mr. Hill is a Suzuki qualified guitar instructor and earned an Honours Bachelor of Arts degree in music from Lakehead University and a Masters Degree in Guitar Performance and a Graduate Professional Diploma in chamber performance from the Hartt School of Music.