Claire Docherty

Claire Docherty studied violin with Warren Jacobs at St Mary's Music School and the RSAMD, and continued her studies with Felix Andrievsky at the RCM and Vladimir Spivakov at the Gnessin Institute, Moscow. She was a string semi-finalist in Young Musician of the Year, led NYOS and was a concerto soloist at both the RSAMD and RCM. She won many prizes and awards including the RSAMD's Governors' Recital Prize, the Worshipful Company of Musicians' Silver Medal, the RCM's Tagore Gold Medal, a Caird Scholarship, an ESU Scholarship to Yale, and the James Milne STUC Scholarship to study in Moscow. Claire was a member of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra until 1996 when she left to teach and direct the String Ensemble at St Mary's Music School.

Claire has tutored the NYOS orchestras, the National Youth Orchestra of Iraq, and the Palestine Youth Orchestra. In July 2013 she visited Kurdistan where she gave lessons and pedagogy workshops to students in Ranya, Erbil and Sulaymaniyah. Since August 2013 Claire has been Head of Strings at George Watson's College. She continues to perform as a soloist and chamber musician.