Awardees
Since 2002, the Dewar Arts Awards have funded over 1200 artists in a wide range of disciplines. Find out more about them here. You can also find a selection of Awardees’ work on our Showcase page.
If you are an Awardee who would like to update or make any changes to your profile, please get in touch with us at online@dewarawards.org.
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Sarah Hutchison
Sarah ranks as one of the two most remarkable metalworkers of her generation.She is “an ambitious spirit” who consistently produces fresh and exciting work.
Sarah Naylor
Sarah’s ambition is to preserve the style of tune developed in the 17th Century, typified by the Slow Strathspey, and the West Coast style of fiddling and to bring it to an international audience.
Shona Brown
Shona is a flautist of huge potential, who also enjoys promoting Scottish composers whenever she has the opportunity.
Stephanie Tinney
Even at the age of 13, Stephanie was considered to be an outstanding clàrsach player and, according to her teacher, a “perfect example of the revitalisation of our traditional music making within the younger generation”.
Steven Nelson
Steven has a flair for technical and musical performance is rarely seen in young percussionists of his generation.
Stuart Peters
As well as being a piper of great potential, Stuart plays acoustic and electric guitar and writes and arranges his own music.
Tom Butler
Tom excels equally at composition, performing on the cello and conducting. He has enormous potential to make a huge contribution to the artistic life of Scotland and internationally.
Susan McCathie
In gaining a place at London’s Royal Academy of Music, Susan beat off serious competition. Over 1,500 hopefuls applied for 30 places.
Steven Graham
Steven Graham ranks winning the World Pipe Championships as a member of the Shotts and Dykehead Pipe Band as one of his greatest achievements to date.
Sophie Boyne
Sophie is already a seasoned performer, having appeared twice at the Edinburgh Festival, danced in The Nutcracker both with Siaga ballet in Japan and with the Scottish Ballet and performed with several top pop bands.
Ross Dickson
Ross is Dumbarton’s own ‘Billy Elliott’. He started dancing at the age of eight and quickly showed talent.
Richard Craig
From Clydebank, Richard is regarded as one of the most versatile and talented young flautists in the UK.
Paul Jennings
Concentrating on folk and Celtic music, Paul has become an accomplished percussionist and is now considered to be one of the top players in his genre.
Nuño de Araujo Pereira
Nuño is one of two Portuguese opera singers who have benefited from the Dewar Arts Awards.
Nicole O’Neill
Nicole, from Wester Hailes in Edinburgh, entered the Royal Ballet School at the age of 12, the only Scottish girl in her year.
Louis Abbott
Louis caught the eye of his percussion teacher at an early age at Beeslack School in Penicuik. She considered him to be the most naturally talented young percussionist she had ever taught.
Lauren Steel
The director of the Aberdeen City Music School says that Lauren is simply one of the best musicians they have had.
Julia Somerville
From Edinburgh, Julia is already an experienced performer and has won many major competitions in harp.
Judith Williams
Judith already had an impressive array of TV credits to her name, including Taggart, Heartbeat, River City and the BAFTA Scotland Award-winning Channel 4 comedy ‘The Book Group’ when she was nominated for an Award.
Joseph Armstrong
Despite being only 12, Joseph had already achieved major goals in uilleann pipe playing when he was nominated for an Award.
Joanne Boag
Joanne is a lyric soprano of exceptional quality. She has just completed a Masters at the prestigious National Opera Studio, London. She is currently working for Scottish Opera and later in 2007 she joins the Welsh National Opera as an Associate Artist.
Jillian Smith (Now Jillian Mannion)
Described as a precocious talent by her university tutors, Jillian demonstrated as an undergraduate that she was equally fluent in writing poetry, academic essays or film scripts.
Graeme Truslove
Graeme is a composer with a difference, his ‘instrument’ is a computer. He is one of two electroacoustic composers supported by an award.
Gillian Maitland
Gillian caught the eye of international percussionists when she attended the Juilliard Summer Percussion Seminar, a festival for advanced high school percussionists.
Genna Spinks
According to her nominator, Genna is one of the finest young string players ever to graduate from the RSAMD.
Fraser Stone
From Grantown on Spey, Fraser started playing drums on a plastic drumkit when he was six.
Fraser Gordon
Born and brought up in Edinburgh, Fraser is, according to all who have taught him, a natural musician with innate musicality and talent.
Fraser Campbell
Respected Scottish jazz saxophonist, Tommy Smith, said of Fraser that he “definitely has all the tools at his disposal to become a truly great musician and ambassador for Scotland.”
David Gargaro
A graduate of St Mary’s Music School in Edinburgh, David, from northern Scotland, is a trumpeter of enormous potential.
Craig MacDonald
Considered by his tutor to be the most talented brass player to have come out of Moray, Craig won the Senior Solo Instrumental Recital class at the 2004 Moray Music Festival.
Christopher Guild
‘Spectacular’, ‘exquisite’ and ‘breathtaking’ are words used to describe Christopher’s prodigious talent as a pianist.
Chris MacDonald
Teenage piper, Chris MacDonald, started playing the bagpipes at 10 and is now one of the top young solo pipers in Scotland.
Catriona Hetherington
Cellist, Catriona Hetherington, loves extremely challenging repertoire. A specialist in unaccompanied solo cello performance, she has given solo recitals throughout the UK.
Carla Caramujo
Carla is ‘an exciting young lyric coloratura soprano with a voice of outstanding quality’ and possesses a voice with instinctive musicianship, impressive range and great potential.
Benjamin Kracun
Benjamin’s interest in storytelling has taken him from photography through to film. He has gone on to become an award winning Director of Photography.
Anthony Schrag
Anthony’s “outstanding ability lies very much in his ability to engage and disarm a passive audience member, to open their mind to the possibilities of creativity, curiosity and ultimately art.”
Anthony Campbell
Anthony’s aim is to launch himself as a contemporary menswear designer, through his final degree show at London Fashion Week.
Angus Nicolson
Piping has been in Angus Nicolson’s family for generations. Although no-one in the long line of Nicolson pipers had the opportunity to develop their musical talents to a professional level, until now.
Andrew Dunlop
Andrew is an energetic and charismatic young performer with an impressive CV including BBC radio and TV performances, Celtic Connections Festival and the winner of many music prizes.
Amira Bedrush-McDonald
According to her violin tutor at the RSAMD, Amira has ‘star quality’ and is quite simply the best violinist he has ever taught.
Aidan O’Rourke
Aidan is a busy recording and performing fiddler at the top of his game, including playing and recording with ‘Blazin’ Fiddles’ and his new trio ‘Lau’.
Aaron McGregor
Multi-talented Aaron has been playing the violin since the age of 7 and now also plays guitar and piano, sings and writes music.
Jennifer McHardy
From the start of her studies, Jennifer’s talent and innovation stood out, culminating in a ‘stunning’ final degree show.
Sally Reid
Originally from Perth, Sally has been hailed as one of the brightest young actors currently on the Scottish theatre scene.
Robert Niven
The Dewar Arts Award supported Robert on a two-month self-directed creative residency in the Banff Arts Centre, Canada.
