Airlie Scott

Airlie is a professional singer and actor. Having originally studied for a PG diploma in Musical Theatre from the Royal College of Music/Royal Academy of Music Combined course, she has had nearly 20 years experience performing professionally as an actor and singer. She has played on Broadway, in the West End, toured to South Africa and California and in regional and touring theatre. As a jazz vocalist she has studied with Judy Niemack (Berlin), Jay Clayton (New York), Heidi Krenn (Austria) Guille Rozenthuler (UK) and Anita Wardell (UK) and been running her own jazz bands for some years now: Pronto Swing and The Hot Jazz Vagabonds. She has also sung light opera, classical oratorio, made sacred CDs with The Newsong Group and performed in Musical Theatre and cabaret. Roles include Prudy Pingleton "Hairspray" RCCL, Baker's Wife in "Into The Woods" by Stephen Sondheim, Doris Day in "Wonderful Day" and many other professional productions. She works as a jazz vocalist- venues include the Bull's Head Jazz Club, Barnes, Ronnie Scott's Upstairs, Imperial War Museum, Cannizaro House, Kew Gardens, Riverhouse Barn, Walton-on-thames, The Edinburgh Fringe Festival, numerous functions, weddings and so on. She has sung with with the blues, jump swing, and R & B band "Minnie and the Moochers" as well as at the Lansdowne Club in Mayfair with the Jules Cowie jazz quartet. She has sung with the Mardi Gras Jazz Band, the Andrew Brewis trio and numerous other top London jazz musicians. As a jazz vocalist she has made a couple of CDS "So Close to You" and "Ev'rybody Wants to be A Cat".