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Fergus McCreadie
File:Fergus McCreadie Oslo Jazzfestival 2023 (181215).jpg
Fergus McCreadie performing at Herr Nilsen, Oslo 2023
Born (1997-07-12) 12 July 1997 (age 28)
Jamestown, Easter Ross, Scotland
Alma mater
OccupationMusician
Notable workForest Floor
AwardsFull list
Musical career
OriginDollar, Clackmannanshire
Genres
InstrumentPiano
LabelsEdition
Member of
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Fergus McCreadie (born 12 July 1997) is a Scottish jazz pianist and composer. His style revolves around a fusion of contemporary jazz with Scottish folk music. He has released four albums as leader of a piano trio and two EPs to date. His third album, Forest Floor, was shortlisted for the 2022 Mercury Prize, and won the Scottish Album of the Year Award and the Scottish Jazz Award for Best Album.

Early life

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Fergus McCreadie was born 12 July 1997[3] in Jamestown, Easter Ross, Scotland,[4] and grew up in Dollar, Clackmannanshire.[5] McCreadie's first experience playing music was on the bagpipes, though he concedes he "was not good at that at all."[5] He saw a jazz piano performance around age 12, and said it "changed my life. It looked so fun, so free and so creative in the way that everyone interacted with each other."[5] McCreadie's parents paid £20 for a broken-down piano; however, he mostly practiced with a Yamaha electric piano through headphones in his bedroom after noise complaints from a neighbor.[1]

McCreadie attended Dollar Academy as a teen,[6] then studied jazz at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland under Tommy Smith, where he also played in Smith's Youth Jazz Orchestra.[1][7] At the conservatoire, he met bassist David Bowden and drummer Stephen Henderson, the other two players in McCreadie's trio.[1] He graduated from the conservatoire in 2018.[4]

Career

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The Fergus McCreadie Trio performing at Oslo Jazzfestival in 2023.

On 6 November 2023, McCreadie announced a 5-track solo piano EP titled Sketches, which was released by Edition Records on 26 November.[8][9] The project was recorded on 21 August at Solas Sound in Glasgow, with Gus Stirrat as recording and mixing engineer.[9]

In January 2024, McCreadie announced his fourth album Stream, which was released on 3 May by Edition.[10][11] Spectrum Culture's Konstantin N. Rega called the album "a forceful work of beauty, patience, stamina and creativity."[12] Stream was followed by an EP, Stream (Revisited), released on Edition on 4 April 2025.[13]

On 24 June 2025, McCreadie announced his fifth album, The Shieling, set for release on 24 October by Edition.[14] The lead single, "Wayfinder", was released on 25 July.[15] The same year, McCreadie contributed multiple tracks to the soundtrack of the Spike Lee film Highest 2 Lowest, which were released as part of the film's official soundtrack album and a separate EP of just McCreadie's contributions, both released by A24 Music.[16][17]

Style and influences

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McCreadie is known for combining contemporary jazz with Scottish folk music inspired by his homeland's natural landscape.[18][19] McCreadie describes this genre crossover by saying "jazz is kind of a folk music in itself. It has a lot of the characteristics, and it's grown up in a lot of the same ways."[1] McCreadie says he is most inspired by American jazz pianist Keith Jarrett, and notes his music taste as also including Glenn Gould, Martha Argerich, Oscar Peterson, McCoy Tyner, Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh, and Mick O'Brien.[1]

In a concert review from 2024, The Skinny's Zoë White described McCreadie as sitting forward facing his audience and speaking candidly about his music in between songs.[20] White noted the "endearing contrast between his down-to-earth anecdotes about hill walks, mountain streams and Scottish weather, and the hypnotic beauty of the music itself."[20]

Accolades

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Awards and nominations received by Fergus McCreadie
Year Award Work Status Ref.
2015 Young Scottish Jazz Musician of the Year Himself Runner-up [21]
2016 Peter Whittingham Jazz Award Won [22]
2019 Scottish Album of the Year Award Turas Shortlisted [23]
2021 Cairn Longlisted [24]
2022 Mercury Prize Forest Floor Shortlisted [25]
Scottish Album of the Year Award Won [26]
Scottish Jazz Award for Best Album Won [27]
2023 Scottish Jazz Award for Best Band Fergus McCreadie Trio Nominated [28][29]

McCreadie has also won the Young Scottish Jazz Musician of the Year's under-17 category in 2013 and 2014, the Linda Trahan Memorial Prize University of St Andrews, and the Guy Barker Award at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.[22] McCreadie was selected for BBC Radio 3's New Generation Artists, becoming the first non-classical musician chosen for the recognition.[30]

Personal life

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McCreadie lives in Glasgow.[1]

Discography

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Albums

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EPs

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Singles

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Fergus McCreadie singles[32]
Year Name Album
2020 "Cairn" Cairn
2021 "An Old Friend"
"Jig"
"Cairn (Live)"
"Jig (Live)"
"An Old Friend (Live)"
2022 "Law Hill"[33] Forest Floor
"Morning Moon"
"The Unfurrowed Field"
2024 "Stony Gate" Stream
"Snowcap"[34]
2025 "Wayfinder" The Shieling

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