A teenager has been charged in connection with the death of a Scottish conductor in Argentina.



Violinist Finlay Ferguson, 60, was the director of the San Martín Theatre Youth Academic Orchestra and a former gold medal-winning student at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.

His body was found in his apartment in the city of Córdoba on Thursday and police said his death was being treated as murder.

Local reports said police arrested a 19-year-old man who has been charged with simple homicide.

The teenager is said to have been in possession of Ferguson’s mobile phone and computer at the time of his arrest.

Local media reported that Ferguson was found naked in bed and had died from a blow to the head, thought to have been from a gym dumbbell.

Córdoba’s cultural agency cancelled performances for the weekend at the theatre where he worked and expressed their “deepest sympathy” for the “painful loss”.

In a statement, the agency paid tribute to a “great teacher” and said he had taught dozens of violinists and other musicians who now perform in official orchestras across Argentina.

Ferguson, from Glasgow, had lived in Argentina for 30 years.