Glen Mouat - Violin
Glen Mouat is a Scottish violinist whose work spans solo, chamber, and orchestral performance across the UK and internationally. He is currently studying at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland under the tutelage of Maya Iwabuchi, where he continues to develop a performance practice guided by artistic integrity, emotional depth, and an unwavering belief in music as a vital and human act of expression.
Glen’s performing career moves fluidly between recital, chamber, and orchestral performance. He has appeared as guest leader with ensembles including the Glasgow University Opera Society, Clyde Opera Group, Aberdeen Sinfonietta, and more. As an orchestral musician, he values the discipline, unity, and collective responsibility required in large-scale performance. His chamber work reflects a deep commitment to listening, dialogue, and the shared architecture of sound within a small ensemble. One of his most memorable experiences was premiering Rebecca Clarke’s Suite for Two Violins and Piano with Emmanuel Borowsky and Dan Weiser.
Glen is a founding member of the Tessera Quartet, an ensemble developing a growing presence across Scotland through curated concert series and collaborative projects. The quartet’s programming combines core string quartet repertoire with contemporary works and music by underrepresented composers, reflecting a commitment to both tradition and the expansion of the musical canon. Tessera Quartet aims to make high-quality classical music concerts accessible to everyone.
Internationally, Glen recently returned from a multi-state tour of the United States with Amici Music, performing programmes for two violins and piano. Alongside his performing work, he is the artistic director of Anima Music, a movement dedicated to making classical music and the arts more accessible and welcoming through imaginative programming and themed concert formats.
Glen is also a committed educator, running a busy private teaching studio. His teaching focuses on making violin playing as natural, efficient, and comfortable as possible, recognizing that technical freedom and expressive freedom are inseparable. Following a gym-related injury early in his development, Glen became deeply interested in healthy technique and sustainable practice. This led him to work closely with physiotherapists and practitioners of the Alexander Technique, developing a nuanced understanding of alignment, balance, and tension management at the instrument. His approach emphasizes ease of movement, sustainable technique, and long-term physical resilience.
He draws inspiration from the pedagogical traditions of Dorothy DeLay, Ivan Galamian, and Demetrius Constantine Dounis, and has been shaped by masterclasses with Simon Fischer, Andrea Gajic, Sue Barclay, Pedro de Alcantara, Krysia Osostowicz, Donnie Deacon, James Stern, Brian Ganz, Cecylia Barcyzk, and the Borowsky Trio. Combining technical rigour with physical awareness and artistic integrity, Glen supports his students in developing a sustainable, expressive, and confident relationship with their instrument.
Outwith music, Glen has a deep love of travel and finds a profound sense of perspective and peace in experiencing different places around the world. He is a frequent visitor to the United States, with a particular affection for New York City and Asheville, North Carolina, as well as Vienna — cities whose cultural vibrancy and artistic heritage continue to inspire him. He greatly values time spent with friends and family, especially when gathered around good food and good wine, experiences that enrich both his personal life and his artistic outlook.
Filip Matasaru - Violin
Filip Theodoros Matasaru is a violinist based in Scotland whose work spans orchestral, chamber, and collaborative performance across the UK and internationally. He studied at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, where he completed both Bachelor and Master of Music degrees in Performance (2019–2025), alongside an ABRSM Diploma undertaken within the conservatoire programme. His performing activity encompasses symphonic repertoire, chamber music, historically informed performance, and collaborative projects presented in major festivals and concert venues.
He has performed with leading professional ensembles including the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, and with the Scottish Ensemble across multiple programmes including the Concerts by Candlelight series. His orchestral work also includes projects with the Dunedin Consort and the GRIT Orchestra under the direction of Greg Lawson, including performances presented at Celtic Connections. Internationally, he has performed with Camerata Athens Chamber Orchestra, alongside other European ensembles and collaborative projects.
Matasaru has appeared in major international festivals including the Athens & Epidaurus Festival, Bayreuth Baroque Festival, Festival della Valle d’Itria, and Festival El Escorial, and has performed in prominent venues such as Teatro Real Madrid, Theater an der Wien, and Konzerthaus Dortmund. He has also appeared as a soloist with Les Musiciens de Bucarest. His work has involved collaboration with conductors, composers, and performers across diverse stylistic and cultural contexts, requiring adaptability within varied rehearsal and performance structures.
A committed chamber musician, he is a founding member of the Tessera Quartet, an emerging ensemble that has quickly established a growing presence across Scotland. The quartet performs regularly in concert series, tours, and curated programmes, and is developing a fresh and distinctive artistic profile through new collaborations, expanding performance opportunities, and increasing audience engagement. Its work spans core quartet repertoire and contemporary programmes, reflecting a shared commitment to ensemble depth, communication, and artistic development. Alongside quartet work, Matasaru has extensive experience in chamber collaborations including piano quintet repertoire and curated concert programmes presented across Scotland and in international cultural contexts.
His artistic development has been shaped through masterclasses and coaching with distinguished musicians including Nicola Benedetti, Maya Iwabuchi, Krysia Osostowicz, Goetz Richter, Martin Storey, Victor García García, David Watkin, Andrea Gajic, and Pedro de Alcantara, which have informed his approach to sound, ensemble awareness, and stylistic versatility.
He is committed to inclusive music-making and to supporting engagement with live performance across diverse audiences and settings.
Suzanne Godet - Viola
French violist Suzanne is a music traveler. She has played with many different ensembles, from folk music bands, Scottish musical theater companies to professional chamber and symphony orchestras such as RSNO, Scottish Ensemble (nominated Young artist of the season) and Salo Chamber orchestra, pop bands, piano quintets, quarters, trios, among others.
Bubbling with creativity and versatile skills Suzanne is now collaborating with many chamber music ensembles to work toward more accessible live classical music concerts:
She co-created the string trio No Borders with whom they have been performing alongside Live Music Now Scotland and in Scottish communities since 2023. They started as volunteers at the Queen Hospital’s dementia unit, and have now established themselves as a versatile chamber ensemble touring mainly in Scotland and France, recently collaborating with a Scottish composer for a film track and a world première and a French artist “Colibri” on a recording of his new album coming up soon.
She recently started collaborating with MishMash Productions in England to create a children’s show called “Fishing for Haiku”, which will be touring in English schools in 2026-2027, with the aim of bringing classical music to young minds in a fresh perspective, playing the music from memory, with movements and acting, to stimulate and enrich as many children’s lives as possible.
Her musical journey started in France, in the Jura region where she is from, before taking off to the conservatoires of Lyon and Grenoble, whilst studying communication at University. It is in Finland that she decided to focus on music, at the end of her communication degree and started her bachelor athe University of Art of Turku (Turun Taide Akatemia). As said previously, no path is straight for a creative mind, so she decided to finish her degree in Scotland at the Royal Conservatoire under the rich guidance of violist Jane Atkins. Where her studies made her realise that music needs to be made more accessible, and decided to accentuate her career purpose to help bring the importance of live music forward in society.
She learned her craft from the best, such as Jane Atkins, Scott Dickinson, Oleg Larionov, Harri Sippel, James Silverthorn and Anne Geneviève Lamarchand.
As well as playing viola, she has been developing her skills as a conductor alongside her viola studies, with courses in Finland with Maestro Petri Sakari, in London with Sean Edwards at the Glover Edwards conducting program for women at the Royal academy as well as in Scotland with Michael Bawtree. Putting that knowledge into practice, she made her opera debut at the Edinburgh Fringe 2024 with the opera Carmen and continued the following summer with die Fledermaus and will be delighted to be back with the opera company Aria Alba for next Summer’s production.
Joining Tessera quartet is a real honour and pleasure, as she has the chance to know two of the members with whom she studied at the Royal Conservatoire with, and had occasions to play within various projects. She brings her warm viola sound in the rich blend of the quartet to spice up the daring repertoire journey they are going onto!
Lucy Pye - Cello
Lucy Pye is a Scottish cellist and vocalist, performing across the UK and internationally. She completed her Bachelor of Music degree at the Royal Northern College of Music in 2024, studying under Jennifer Langridge. Before undertaking her degree, Lucy was a member of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Junior School – studying cello with David O’Connell, and voice with Verity Johnson – for five years, and she began lessons with Ellen Martin, aged 4. Lucy is an accomplished orchestral, chamber, solo, pit, theatre, and session musician, finding joy in a varied musical lifestyle, and delighting in opportunities to try new pieces and styles of performing.
An avid lover of chamber music, Lucy is a founding member of the Tessera Quartet, a group which is gaining a following throughout Scotland with a blend of intimate and larger concerts, collaborations with instrumentalists and composers, and varied programmes. The quartet performs regular concert series across Scotland, combining core quartet repertoire with contemporary works, and works from underrepresented composers, allowing the quartet to explore lesser-known works and bring them to a wider audience, all the while maintaining their enjoyment and passion for their work. Lucy is a passionate advocate for accessibility to classical music and hopes that performing with the Tessera Quartet in a variety of locations and spaces will enable more people to discover and enjoy it. During her time at RNCM, Lucy has been a member of quartets, piano trios, and – most eclectically – a heavy metal/jazz fusion ensemble, and she is currently the cellist and vocalist of the Heartstrings Duo, alongside guitarist Scott Cunningham.
As a lover of Musical Theatre, Lucy has been in the pit for several performances of musicals across the UK – including Sweeney Todd, Guys and Dolls, and Les Miserables – and on the stage as the Narrator for RNCM’s production of Sondheim’s Into The Woods, and she originated the role of The Doctor in Will Sharland’s Kevin! The Musical in March 2025. Throughout 2025 she collaborated with Már Gunnarsson as a member of the RNCM Session Orchestra whilst recording his album, and she travelled to Iceland to perform as principal cello of the ensemble when Gunnarsson performed in Reykjavik and Keflavik in November of 2025.
Prior to her degree, Lucy was a member of the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland (NYOS), and the West of Scotland Schools String and Symphony Orchestras, working under the batons of distinguished conductors such as James Lowe, Dionysus Grammenos, Holly Matheison, and Natalia Luis-Bassa. The advice, anecdotes, and experiences these and other conductors Lucy worked with during her time in these orchestras have helped to shape her into the musician she has become, and inspired her to take up conducting during her time at RNCM, taught by Mark Heron.
Aside from performing, Lucy is a dedicated teacher, she works with RCS Juniors in conjunction with the King’s Fund as a Lower Strings Lecturer to teach cello and double bass to children across East Ayrshire at Dumfries House. She also teaches voice and cello privately, and is very passionate about the accessibility of music education to all children. In 2024, Lucy became a Music Leader with NYOS, which – under the mentorship of Katrina Lee – enabled her to build workshop leading skills, helped her to better understand how to make music more accessible, and encouraged her to enjoy and use her creativity freely. Lucy also works as pastoral staff for the West of Scotland Schools String Orchestra, the same orchestra she was once principal cellist of, and she loves being able to pay forward the experiences she had as a young cellist. Outwith music, Lucy is a freelance photographer who specialises in performance and headshot photography.