Fergus McCreadie is one of Scotland's most exciting young artists. Soon to be a graduate of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, he has been featured at the Glasgow, Edinburgh, Fife, Aberdeen and Islay Jazz Festivals repeatedly for the past 4 years. His debut album, Turas, has been praised for 'reflecting his engagement with the Scottish landscape and musical tradition while also showing a firm grasp of the jazz piano tradition.' (Jazz In Europe) He is also a member of Graham Costello's STRATA, described as "groovy yet cerebral" by BBC Radio Scotland, and of the Mark Hendry Octet and the Matthew Carmicheal Quartet, both of whom have recently released their debut album. He is a winner of the coveted Peter Wittingham Jazz Award, the Young Scottish Jazz Musician of the year u17s Prize, the Guy Jones Prize and the Joe Temperly Prize from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, and the Linda Trahan Memorial Prize from St Andrews University. He has also been featured on BBC Radio Scotland regularly as a leader and as a sideman, and has appeared alongside Bob Mintzer, Mike Stern, Iain Ballamy, Tommy Smith, Kestustis Vaiginis, Pat from Hue and Cry, Mario Caribe, Paul Towndrow and Alyn Cosker.
'If McCreadie had chosen photography instead of music his images would strong, bold and full of character. He plays loft-life jazz informed by a taste for angular syncopation and classical punctuation, but with an alarming ambidextrous intensity that belies his youthfulness.' - Instrumentali.com
'...(One of) Scotland's finest young pianists' - The Herald
'Kept (his) audience spellbound and turned this evening into something extra special' - BebopSpokenHere