Findlay Spence

Scottish cellist Findlay Spence has performed at festivals and venues throughout the world as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral principal. Recent chamber performances include Wigmore Hall, Royal Festival Hall, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, and Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin. He has performed major cello concertos with numerous British orchestras and has been invited for residencies in association with the Aldeburgh Festival, St. Magnus International Festival, McGill University Montreal, and the Mendelssohn on Mull Festival.

​Findlay has performed as Principal Cello of the Royal Northern Sinfonia, Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra, Riot Ensemble, Grafenegg Academy Orchestra, National Youth Orchestra of Scotland and Ensemble Modern Hans Zender Akademie as well playing regularly with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, English National Opera Orchestra, European Union Youth Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra and many others.

Findlay was a scholar at the Royal College of Music in London where he studied with Melissa Phelps, and he is now mentored by John Myerscough of the Doric String Quartet.

​Findlay plays Robert Brewer Young’s ‘Rostropovich’ cello, generously loaned to him by the St. Paul’s Foundation.

​Whenever he can find a gap in his schedule, Findlay returns to the Scottish Mountains with his 1-person tent.

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