SCOTT PETERS
CELLIST

Scott Peters doesn’t like to stick to the book. He takes your expectations of a cellist and flips
them upside down, transplanting the deep sounds of blues onto his German-bred cello
named Friedrich.
Born and raised in Atlanta, GA, Peters started playing the “boy violin” at the wizened age of
3. After realizing it was called a "cello", he reached a high level of classical repertoire at an
early age, and enjoyed a four-year reign as Principal Cellist of the Georgia All-State
Orchestra during his teenage years. But the classical music stereotype was constantly
challenged by his other lives as an athlete and rock guitarist. At Harvard University, he
added a strong base of classical and contemporary theory to his musical arsenal, all while
winning three Ivy League Championships with the varsity football team. And finally, he
began to experiment with contemporary cello.

In 2016, he uprooted his life and moved to Spain to pursue a Master’s degree from Berklee
College of Music. In the Contemporary Performance program, Peters applied the sounds of
blues, gospel, and American roots music onto the cello by experimenting with cross-tunings
and slide cello technique. He also began to sing while playing his instrument, and now is refining
his bluesy cellist-singer musicality into something truly unique. One can hear these fresh takes
on his thesis project entitled NEW ROADS, available on SoundCloud.
Ever well rounded, Peters also has experience playing in genres ranging from rock, pop, folk,
classical, jazz, film scores, bluegrass, and flamenco as a session cellist. As a producer, he has
worked with artists from folk-rock, gospel, and jazz spheres. And finally as a multiinstrumentalist, Peters continues to hone his abilities on guitar, bass, and mandolin.
When everything is said and done, Scott Peters' goal is to make the cello sound just as home in
roots music as it does in classical music.

@scottpetersmusic