Dr Scott Davie

Scott Davie is known to audiences as both a soloist and chamber musician. He has given concerts throughout Australia, and his performances and recordings have been broadcast on radio and television. 

In 2012, Scott gave the first Australian performances of the original version of Rachmaninoff’s Fourth Piano Concerto (1926) to capacity audiences at the Sydney Opera House with Vladimir Ashkenazy and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. 

In 2005, Scott collaborated with Graeme Murphy and the Sydney Dance Company in their production of Grand, giving highly acclaimed performances throughout Australia. In 2007, the production made an extensive tour of the United States of America, and segments of the work were revived in Murphy with The Australian Ballet.

His first solo CD, Lilacs, was released by ABC Classics in 2002. A CD of the music from Grand was released on the Melba label in 2005, and Pictures from an Exhibition, featuring the First Piano Sonata of Rachmaninoff was released by ABC Classics in 2006.

More recently, songs and Lieder performed with the late Australian soprano Taryn Fiebig have appeared on the Toccata Classics and ABC Classic labels, and broadcast by ABC Classic FM, as have recordings of Australian music with clarinettist Jason Noble. A CD of Australian violin and piano music, with Asmira Woodward-Page, was re-released by ABC Classics in 2019.

A research project utilising the School of Music's 1770 Henrion in collaboration with Ngarra-Burria Indigenous composers resulted in an album released by ABC Classic in 2021, along with a New Waves podcast and extensive radio interviews and broadcasts. An article on the project appeared in The Conversation in 2020, and in 2021 articles on Beethoven, Ravel, Chopin and Stavinsky have appeared in the same publication.  

Scott's research on the performance career of Rachmaninoff is represented online in the Rachmaninoff Performance Diary, now in its third edition. Various papers and articles on this research have been given or are awaiting publication.      

B.Mus, M.Mus (Performance), Ph.D

My research interests include Rachmaninoff Studies, Russian Music History, Pianists and Piano Repertory, Philosophy, the Philosophy of Music.