Scottish keyboardist, composer, and producer David McGuinness has carved out a diverse career that spans from early music to modern soundtrack composition, including collaborations within the classical, folk, and indie rock worlds. As director of the eclectic early music ensemble, Concerto Caledonia, he has rescued ancient repertoire from obscurity, bringing warmth, humor, and zest to their arrangements which often feature guests from the U.K. folk world like Martin Carthy, Olivia Chaney, and Jim Moray. Apart from his devotion to historical Scottish music, McGuinness has also produced music for radio and television, most notably working as a composer for British TV drama Skins, which led to collaborations with pop singers like Rae Morris and Gabrielle Aplin. In 2007, he produced John Purser's 50-part BBC Radio Scotland series on the history of Scottish music. A Senior Lecturer at the University of Glasgow, McGuinness spent four years working as the principal investigator on the research project Bass Culture in Scottish Musical Traditions. A 2018 project saw him team up with Scottish folksinger Alasdair Roberts, with whom he had worked in Concerto Caledonia, and improvisational electronic artist Amble Skuse, on the collaborative album What News. ~ Timothy Monger, Rovi