About

With a string of international scholarships and awards under his belt, Augustine Artist Scott Borg has been praised as a daring and innovative artist with “enormous facility on the guitar, a fluent technique, who plays with total confidence and professional expertise, panache and artful spontaneity.” As a winner of Artists International, New York Concert Review described his Carnegie Hall debut as “gracefully presented, and expertly played…each note was purposeful and focused, as was each rest.” His previous engagements have included performances at the Festival Internacional de Guitarra Mérida (Mexico), ICPNA Guitar Festival (Peru), the Shell Darwin International Festival (Australia), New York's Apollo Theater and Alice Tully Hall in the Lincoln Center, Ateneo de Madrid, the Kennedy Center, and the Westminster Kennel Club “Best in Show”. 

 

Scott received his D.M.A from New England Conservatory, an Artist Diploma from Yale University, M.M from the Juilliard School, and a Bachelor of Creative Arts from the University of Wollongong graduating valedictorian with first class honors. In 2001, he was the only recipient of the Australian Music Examinations Board highest honor, the Fellowship of Music. 

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An ethnomusicologist and ardent advocate of World Music and interdisciplinary performing art practices has led him to collaborate with with notable artists such as Brooklyn Rider, FLUX, dancer Sara Mearns, Sitarist Peter Row, Clarice and Badi Assad, Mandolinist Yaki Reuven, Harpist Bridget Kibbey, Oudist Simon Shaheen, Domrist Ekaterina Skliar, Cellist Mike Block, Tablaist Amit Kavthekar, and The Great Necks (Matthew Rohde and Adam Levin). His collaborative World Music album “Sessions: Rhode Island” featuring his recompositions of folk music from Java, Japan, China, Ukraine, and Ireland peaked at No.1 on the Classical Crossover Billboard Charts.  

 

He is currently on faculty at Montgomery College and is also Artistic Director of the Mid-Maryland Guitar Festival. He plays “Aranda”, a guitar by Stephan Connor, and an 8 string guitar by Jeff Sigurdson, and uses Augustine Regal strings.