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| A native of Seattle, Washington, Paul Scott graduated from Harvard University in 1974 with Honors in Folklore & Mythology (Ethnomusicology). While at Harvard, Paul studied
classical cello with Stefan Popov at the New England Conservatory of Music, played in the Bach Society Chamber Orchestra, argued with Leonard Bernstein about the consciousness of music and spent Thursday lunches listening to E. Power Biggs rehearse.
Paul collected Northwest Native American Music, played blues, rock 'n roll, gamelan, bunraku and noh. He studied with Professors Nketia, Seeger, Lord, Ward and Vogt, corresponded on topics of Ethnomusicology with David McAllester and Helen Roberts and
studied American folk song and Seis. He also swam backstroke on the Harvard swim team and was on the 1969 and 1970 All American Swim teams. |
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| Following Harvard, Paul joined the faculty of Evergreen State College where he lectured in Anthropology and Ethnomusicology and conducted the college orchestra. He worked at the Washington State Capitol Museum, researching and collecting Northwest Native American Music. He attended graduate school at the University of Washington, studying Ethnomusicology, Systematic Musicology and Neurophysiology. He played with Thai and Laotian groups, studied with Usted Ziammuddin Daggar, and concertized with the Imperial Court Orchestra of Nepal while he continued his classical cello studies. He studied the Ch'in with Mr. Tao. It was at the University of Washington where Paul met, and began performing with, Scott Cossu, and (under the name Paul Scott-Sevilla), recorded Still Moments with Scott Cossu on Windham Hill Records, and Tantra la and Hear and Be Yonder with David Casper on Hummingbird Records. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| In 1980, Paul sustained serious injuries in an auto accident and was unable to play the cello for several years. He recently resumed playing the cello and, in spired by the movie Tous le Matins du Monde, built a recording studio in his home. In 1996 he released his first solo album, Essays. Paul is currently working on his second solo album to be released in late 1999. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
