American conductor and pianist, Scott Dunn, made his 1999 Carnegie Hall debut with the American Composers Orchestra playing his own orchestration of Vernon Duke’s ‘lost’ 1923 “Piano Concerto in C”. He made his first professional conducting engagements in 2000 and subsequently held posts with the Music Festival of the Hamptons and Glimmerglass Opera. He currently holds conducting positions with the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra in Los Angeles and Pittsburgh Opera. In recent times, Dunn has also appeared leading the Orchestre National in Lyon, France, the Filharmonica of Guanajuato, Mexico and the North Carolina Symphony, among others.

Also a distinguished pianist and orchestrator, Dunn’s acclaimed recording of his orchestration and performance of the Vernon Duke Piano Concerto with the Russian Philharmonic was released in 2007 on the Naxos label. His 2005 solo recording of the complete piano works of Lukas Foss, also on Naxos, prompted the New Yorker to write, “a delightful new disk. Dunn’s playing — lean, incisive, occasionally flamboyant — has just the touch this music needs.” Other recent projects include orchestrational assistance on Danny Elfman’s new ballet “Rabbit and Rogue” for Twyla Tharp and the ABT, a producer credit for the same composer’s “Serenada Schizophrana” CD for Sony, and assistance in the restoration and recording of George Gershwin’s original 1935 version of ‘Porgy and Bess’ (with conductor John Mauceri and the Nashville Symphony) for a 2006 Grammy nominated release by Decca.

Dunn’s distinguished musical mentors have included legendary pianist Byron Janis, conductor Jorge Mester, as well as composers Lukas Foss, Leonard Rosenman and Richard Rodney Bennett, among others. His diverse education includes musical studies at the Manhattan School of Music, Juilliard and Aspen School and Festival, as well as an M.D. from the University of Iowa, with post-graduate studies at USC and board certification in eye surgery.