Like his father, Scott has taught in all capacities from large classrooms to individual instrumental lessons. He has rehearsed and conducted numerous bands, orchestras, choirs, and jazz ensembles in educational settings throughout the United States and in Finland. As a composer and arranger, he has written instrumental and vocal works for intermediate, advanced, and virtuoso performers. 

Many of the compositions already in his catalogue are complex and large in scale. Recently, however, he has turned his attention to creating small-scale, practical compositions and arrangements suitable for both amateurs and professionals. Several of these recent works have been performed on concerts and during Sunday services at his church, Prince of Peace Lutheran in Princeton Junction, New Jersey. At Prince of Peace he organizes a concert series (PoP-CS -- the Prince of Peace Concert Series) which brings together professional and amateur musicians in benefit performances to raise money for local charities.

An enthusiastic advocate of community and amateur music-making, he is an active member of the Central Jersey Symphony Orchestra, Central Jersey Wind Ensemble, Prince of Peace Adult Choir, Rutgers University Alumni Wind Ensemble, and Sinfonietta nova. The groups are conducted by community music leaders such as Gail Lee, Nicholas Santoro, and Michael Avagliano. 

He has also established PExMoE, the Princeton Experimental Mozart Ensemble, a professional group dedicated to bringing rarely-heard or specially-arranged works by Mozart to the public. Their current projects include recording the original sextet version of the K.375 serenade and a performance of Scott’s “micro orchestra” arrangement of the Mozart D major horn concerto.

Scott has studied composition, horn, singing, and conducting at Duke University, University of South Florida, Sibelius Academy, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and Rutgers University. His composition teachers include Max Yount, Stephen Jaffe, James Lewis, Kalevi Aho, John Downey, and Charles Wuorinen. He has studied horn with Ralph Froelich, Barry Benjamin, and Douglas Lundeen. He has studied voice with Dan Nelson and conducting with Jerry Junkin, Michael Votta, Jorma Panula, and Thomas Dvorak.

Scott’s significant compositional influences include Shostakovich, Stravinsky, Copland, Schuman, Mahler, Strauss, and Mozart. “Mozart is the greatest composer ever to put notes on paper. He seems to do so much with so little; yet the result isn’t spare or mechanical, but generous and charged with variety. My objective as a composer is to make generous, active, moving music with a range of expression commensurate with the vast scope of the human spirit.”

When not composing, arranging, singing in his church choir, or practicing (and practicing and practicing!) horn, he works as a mild-mannered senior assessment specialist at Educational Testing Service in Princeton, New Jersey. He contributes his organizational skills and musical knowledge to the Praxis and TExES teacher licensure examinations as well as to the Advanced Placement series’ music theory examination. He also has extensive experience in developing and scoring free-response questions used on various national examinations including the National Assessment of Educational Progress arts assessment. He has given assessment-related presentations and workshops at numerous meetings and conferences for teachers of music and other subjects. Organizations hosting these presentations and workshops include ETS, the National Association for Sport and Physical Education, and Music Educators National Conference. He is a member of MENC and the New Jersey Music Educators Association. 

He is an avid photographer and dedicated “dad” to his Labrador retriever, Juno. He is also obsessed with digital recording technology and microphone set ups and harbors fantasies of being a recording mogul.

Scott can be reached at bosshorn@pagosapeakpress.com.