Feargus Hetherington, completed his studies at the Cleveland Institute of Music in the USA having received batchelor and post-graduate awards from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow, Scotland, the city of his birth. His teachers have included Angus Ramsay, Elizabeth Layton, David Russell, Peter Salaff and Jerre Gibson. His viola studies have been with Catherine Marwood and Michael Beeston. He has also worked with distinguished soloists Ilya Kaler, James Buswell and Ivan Straus at summer academies in Canada and Austria. As an invited participant of the Mendelssohn on Mull Festival for six consecutive years, Feargus has performed alongside leading musicians in chamber and string orchestra repertoire.

Whilst a student, Feargus led the Sonoré String Quartet for five years, with whom he participated in numerous festivals and workshops throughout the UK and received masterclasses and coachings with the country's leading quartets including the Allegri, Vellinger, Fitzwilliam, Alberni, and Edinburgh Quartet. The group premiered quartets by Eddie McGuire and David Fennessey, and performed in the RNCM's Quartetfest, RSAMD's Summerfest and 'Academy Now' series' and the Halifax Young Musicians Festival, giving recitals in venues including Merchant's Hall and Pollock House, Glasgow, Glasgow Cathedral, St Andrews University etc. He also led a string sextet, which provided him with the opportunity to explore and perform some of the great works of the medium, including Schoenberg's 'Verklaerte Nacht'. Feargus has worked extensively in the medium of violin with guitar, through which he has uncovered some interesting and varied repertoire, from Italian classical to traditional music and tango. His diversity stems from his childhood during which he was a winner in national competitions for jazz and traditional music.

An experienced orchestral leader, Feargus has led under conductors such as Joseph Swensen, Sian Edwards and Takuo Yuasa. He has been leader of the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland, RSAMD Symphony Orchestra, the Cleveland Philharmonic Orchestra, and freelance ensembles such as the orchestra for Opera on a Shoestring and the City of Glasgow Symphony Orchestra. He has also played in the Northern Sinfonia, the St Endellion Festival Orchestra under Richard Hickox and the Scottish Concert Orchestra.

Feargus has given numerous solo concerto performances with orchestras including the Scottish Bach Consort with whom he made a solo debut at the age of 16. He has performed as a soloist with the orchestral societies of Glasgow, Helensburgh and Kirkcaldy, the Kelvin Ensemble, the Edinburgh University Chamber Orchestra and Sinfonia Excelsior, and was selected to perform his final exam at the RSAMD with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. He has acted as rehearsal soloist for the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland. (See repertoire list.)

Feargus has been awarded many prizes including the Ian D Watt, John Ireland, and Dunbar-Gerber prizes for duo performances with pianist Gavin Brady. He has also been kindly supported in his studies by the Scottish International Education Fund, the Cross Trust and the Caird Trust as well as the Cleveland Institute of Music.