Episode 36: Jeff Scott

My guest in Episode 36 is the amazing Jeff Scott, Associate Professor of Horn at Oberlin Conservatory, member of the IHS Advisory Council, and a Featured Artist at IHS55!

Episode Highlights

• Growing up in Queens, NY
• Shout out to horn teacher Carolyn Clark
• Importance of learning to play in multiple styles
• Musical inspirations, horn and otherwise
• Shout out to Valerie Coleman
• Composition process
• Teaching philosophy
• Deciding to leave Broadway work for full time chamber music
• Hearing the overture to Oberon for the first time, played by Jerome Ashby.
• How he got started composing, advice for new composers
• Collaborating with Margaret McGillivray on LIFT: Solos for Horn by Black Composers
• Current performing, recording, composition projects
• Upcoming IHS55 where he is a Featured Artist