Jeff Scott
Jeff Scott, a Queens, NY native, began playing the French horn at age 14 with a scholarship for private lessons and music theory at the Brooklyn College Preparatory Division. His first teacher, Carolyn Clark, generously taught him for free during high school, providing an opportunity to pursue music when resources were scarce.
After earning degrees from the Manhattan School of Music in ‘90 and SUNY at Stony Brook in ‘92, Mr. Scott has had a diverse performance career in studio, chamber, and orchestral music, including Broadway shows, ballet companies, tours with commercial artists, and recordings for films, classical, pop, and jazz genres.
Mr. Scott’s compositions span symphonic and chamber orchestras, choirs, chamber groups, and solo pieces for wind, brass, strings, and voice and have been performed by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Sinfonietta, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Imani Winds, Akropolis Reed Quintet, Seraph Brass, among other ensembles. His piece Passion for Bach and Coltrane received a Grammy® for Best Classical Compendium in 2024.
A founding member of the renowned wind quintet Imani Winds, Mr. Scott retired in 2021 after 24 years of innovative touring, recording, and teaching. The quintet was commemorated with a permanent exhibit at the Smithsonian Museum of African American History in 2017.
Following a four-year tenure as associate professor of horn at Oberlin College and Conservatory, Mr. Scott is set to join the University at Buffalo as a professor of music in fall 2024.