Wendy Weatherby is a cellist, singer and composer from Edinburgh, Scotland.
After graduating from The Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in 1983, she embarked on a career involving performing and teaching, singing and playing in both traditional Scottish and Jazz bands. She has toured extensively throughout Europe and the USA , at both folk and jazz venues and festivals.
Wendy has appeared on countless albums as a guest musician, and has two solo albums ,' A Breath on the Cold Glass' and ' Two Loves' to her credit. As a composer, she has written for 4 films and has recorded two of her works which were commissioned by the renowned Celtic Connections festival. These are ' Daybreak on the World's Edge' - poems of William Soutar set for male voice and cello quartet, and 'Sunset Song', an interpretation of the novel of that name by Lewis Grassic Gibbon. These albums feature some of the top musicians in Scotland.
Wendy is currently teaching traditional cello styles at The Centre of Excellence for Traditional Music in Plockton, her old college, the RSAMD, in Glasgow, and at The Sage in Newcastle.
A new album, on Fellside records, will be released early in 2009. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.