Duncan Strachan is an award winning cellist and composer hailing from the highlands of Scotland. He principally works as cellist in the Maxwell Quartet, a string quartet who combine classical and contemporary music with their own reworkings of traditional Scottish folk songs and dances. He is also a composer and arranger and has collaborated with a wide array of artists in various mediums, including commissions for Gaia Duo, Chamber Music Scotland, Robert Irvine, and Lochaber Music School. He is Artistic Director at the Loch Shiel Festival in Glenfinnan, Scotland, and a professor of cello at St Mary’s Music School, Edinburgh and the Music School of Douglas Academy, Milngavie.