About
Flautist Jessica Scott is a versatile performer, specialising in orchestral, contemporary,
improvised and experimental performance. She has been a member of Momentum Ensemble in both 2023 and 2025.
A recent graduate of the Royal Academy of Music, London (RAM) and Sydney Conservatorium of Music (SCM), she has been the recipient of multiple prizes throughout her career, including The Peter Richardson
Memorial Prize (2018), NSW Flute Society Open Championship (2018), Sydney Youth Orchestra’s Principal Chair Scholarship (2018-2019), the Sydney Conservatorium Vice-Chancellor’s Global Mobility scholarship (2019), the Jean Martin-Louie Jean Mercer Performing Arts Education Grant (2020), and the Australian Music Foundation Awards (2021). Following her master’s degree in 2022 at RAM, Jessica stayed on to complete a
one-year Open Academy Fellowship in community engagement through improvisation, working with community-based organisations across London.
Jessica was a core and founding member of contemporary music group Ensemble
Muse. As a contemporary musician, Jessica has performed at the Siteworks Festival and Backstage Music Series in NSW, Australia, Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival, and the soundSCAPE online festival. Additional highlights as a contemporary performer have included recording sessions with Amazon Studios for their film La Cabeza de Joaquín Murrieta and Mount Kimbie for their recent album The Sunset Violent, and world premieres of works for solo flute/small ensemble by over twenty Australian and international composers. Recent projects have included the premiere of Rhys Little’s Piccolo Concerto, ‘Flight’ in 2024, Mimi’s Symphony by George Ellis and Justine Clarke on flute at the Opera House (2025 season), and performing at the 2nd Iranian Music Festival as part of chamber ensemble FolkXperimental in 2024. As an orchestral musician she has performed with the Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra, The Orchestra Project, Australian Indian Orchestra, Voces Caelestium and The Modést Orchestra.