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.

The quartet have performed worldwide, at venues including Wigmore, Concertgebouw and Carnegie Halls, and have released four acclaimed discs on the Linn label. He is also active as 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 currently Artistic Director of the Loch Shiel Festival in the West Highlands, and undertaking a PhD at the University of Aberdeen researching Scottish string quartets and folk music traditions, with Dr Aaron McGregor, Dr John De Simone and Dr Frances Wilkins.