Luke Terence Scott

Baritone Luke Terence Scott is a rising kavalier baritone. Born in Scotland, Scott went south to England for his studies and then north to Finland. He holds a Master of Music in Opera from the Sibelius Academy, and is an alumni of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the Royal Northern College of Music.

Scott has performed numerous operatic roles, including Borys Slykovtich (All the Truths We Cannot See), David (L’amico Fritz), Sid (Albert Herring), Guglielmo (Così fan tutte), and Ben (The Telephone). In the summer of 2023, he made his debut at the Savonlinna Opera Festival as Pâris (Roméo et Juliette), and in the summer of 2024, he appeared at the Opera Nova Festival in Prague in Šimon Voseček's opera Ogres. In the spring of 2025, he will make his debut as a soloist with the Finnish National Opera in the role of Mr. Pilkington in Animal Farm.

On the concert and competition stages, he was a finalist in the Havets Röst competition and the Elizabeth Harwood Memorial Prize 2018, and at the Palais Garnier in France, where he was a finalist in the 7th edition of the Paris Opera Competition in 2022. In 2023, he was awarded the Audience Prize and the Bayreuth Scholarship by the Finnish Wagner Society, and in 2024, he won the Special Prize for Song at the SOI Cedolins International Singing Competition.

Scott has performed with several orchestras, including the Savonlinna Opera Festival Orchestra, Sinfonia Lahti, Jyväskylä Sinfonia, Vaasa City Orchestra, Lohja City Orchestra, Buxton Opera Festival Orchestra, Helsinki Chamber Orchestra, Finnish Chamber Orchestra, Orchestre Prométhée, the Sibelius Academy Symphony Orchestra, and the Royal Northern College of Music Opera Orchestra.

Throughout his career, Scott has had the privilege of collaborating with conductors such as Jorma Panula, Markus Lehtinen, Yves Abel, Adrian Kelly, Stephen Barlow, Nicholas Kok, Chloé Dufresne, Clark Rundell, Stephen Barlow and Stephanie Childress. He has also participated in numerous masterclasses with esteemed professionals, including Patrick Fournillier, Jorma Hynninen, Soile Isokoski, Juha Uusitalo, Kevin Murphy, Kamal Khan, Sir Mark Elder, Sir John Tomlinson, and Roderick Williams OBE.

Scott is proud to have had his studies and career generously supported by the Bayreuther Festspiele Stipendium, Hope Scott Trust, Finnish National Opera Foundation, Taiteen edistämiskeskus, the Martin Wegelius Foundation, Selim Eskelin Foundation, Oopperan Kummit RY, Scottish International Education Trust, Caird Trust and the Leverhulme Trust.

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"Luke Terence Scott shone in the Italian subject with Rodrigo’s ”O Carlo ascolta”; one would like to know how and whether the singer will interpret a Rodrigo in ten or twenty years, but there is already a lot of strength in the interpretation. Striking here as elsewhere: the lyrical sobs in some passages.”

Frank Piontek, Kulturbrief, Aug 2024

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“Scottish baritone Luke Scott sang abundantly handsomely as David the Rabbi, the opera’s Amorina”

Hannu-Ilari Lampila, Helsingin Sanomat

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“Luke Scott’s cheerful and supple voiced Sid”

Hannu-Ilari Lampila, Helsingin Sanomat

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“Butcher boy Sid charmingly played by Luke Scott”

Jan Granberg, Huvudstadsbladet

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“David the Rabbi was strongly played by Luke Scott in both casts”

Jan Granberg, Huvudstadsbladet

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VIDEO: Libera me | Fauré | Luke Terence Scott

Scotbaritone Luke Terence Scott performing the beginning of the Libera me in Fauré’s Requiem. Performed alongside the Vihti Chamber Choir, orchestra formed by members of the Tapiola Sinfonietta and Lohja Sinfonietta. Performed in the 18th Century Vihti Church.