SCOTT DUNN – conductor and pianist

website: www.scott-dunn.com

Contacts:
Ellyn Kusmin, personal representative
101 West 81st St #418 New York, NY 10024
Phone: 413 854 1170
ekusmin@aol.com

CURRENT POSITIONS AND APPOINTMENTS: 

Associate Conductor – Hollywood Bowl Orchestra/LA Philharmonic Association, Los Angeles , Ca 2002, 2003, 2005 and 2007 to present

Assistant Conductor – Pittsburgh Opera
Pittsburgh PA , 2006 to present

PRIOR PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS:

Assistant Conductor – Glimmerglass  Opera
Cooperstown , NY 2006

Associate Music Director for the  Music Festival of the Hamptons and Maestro Lukas Foss, Long Island , NY 1999-2002

Music Director for “La Fabbrica”, Santa Barbara, Ca and Tuscany, Italy 2003 -2004

Orchestral Pianist for Eos Orchestra, NY 1997-1999

Touring Pianist for Martha Graham Dance Company, NY 1997

Vocal Chamber Collaborative Fellow Aspen Music Festival and School, Aspen, Colorado1995 and 1996

RECENT PROFESSIONAL CONDUCTING APPEARANCES:

Hollywood Bowl Orchestra – an evening with Chris Botti at the Hollywood Bowl , July 2008

Britten’s “Billy Budd” – for Pittsburgh Opera (studio run) with Nathan Gunn, Robin Leggate and Greer Grimsley , Pittsburgh PA April 2007

Gounod’s “Romeo and Juliette” – for Pittsburgh Opera “Behind the Curtain”, Benedum Auditorium, Pittsburgh, PA November 2006

Howard Shore’s “Lord of the Rings Symphony” – with the Orchesta Sinfonica de Guanajuato , State Auditorium , Guanajauto Mexico, September 2006

Richard Rodney Bennett’s “The Garden” – world premier performance Glimmerglass Opera, Busch Auditorium, August 2006

Howard Shore’s “Lord of the Rings Symphony” – with the North Carolina Symphony, Koko Booth Auditorium, Raleigh, North Carolina, May, 2006

Howard Shore’s “Lord of the Rings Symphony” – with the Orchestre National de Lyon, Halle Tony Garnier, Lyon, France, February, 2006.

Malcolm Williamson’s  “Happy Prince” – for Kentucky Opera  with sopranos Jennifer Chung, Casey Cole and others,  co-directed by David Neuman and Amy Trompetter and with puppets and design by Amy Trompetter, Louisville, KY 2005

Schoenberg’s “Pierrot Lunaire”  - with mezzo Brenda Patterson, Lydia Brown, piano and others, New York Performing Arts Library at Lincoln Center, NYC NY 2005

“Animal Tales” - by George Plimpton and Kitty Brazelton: music direct fully produced workshop and premiere of “Animal Tales” opera for children , Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, Fl 2005

Marc Adamo’s “Lysistrata” – music direct reference recording for planned Houston Opera production, Lehman College, NYC NY 2004

La Fabbrica – Puccini: “La Boheme”, Weill: “Mahagonny Songspiel” and Ricky Ian Gordon “2244 Shore Point Road”(first performance) , Teatro Giotto , Vicchio, Tuscany , Italy 2003

SELECTED PROFESSIONAL SOLO APPEARANCES WITH MAJOR ORCHESTRAS :

American Composers Orchestra with Maestro Dennis Russell Davies - Rosza : Spellbound Concerto, Carnegie Hall, NYC NY 2001

American Composers Orchestra with Maestro Dennis Russell Davies - Duke : Concerto in C for    piano and orchestra ( orch . Dunn - world premiere ) Carnegie Hall , NYC NY 1999

Hollywood Bowl Orchestra with Maestro John Mauceri - Rosza : Spellbound Concerto, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, Ca 2000

Bournemouth Symphony with Maestro Harold Farberman – Bazelon : Sunday Silence for Piano and Orchestra , Bournemouth, England 1996

Eos Orchestra with Maestro Jonathan Sheffer – Lieberson: King Gesar (NY premiere),    Alice Tully Hall , NYC NY 1997

Atlantic Chamber Orchestra with Maestro Lukas Foss conductor, Scott Ballantyne, vc, and    Michael Guttmann, vln – Beethoven: Triple Concerto op. 56, the Music Festival of the Hamptons, Long Island, NY 2002

Atlantic Chamber Orchestra with Scott Dunn conductor and soloist – Mozart : Concerto in d, K 466, The Music Festival of the Hamptons, Long Island, NY 2001

Atlantic Chamber Orchestra with Scott Dunn conductor and soloist - Haydn : Concerto in D, The Music Festival of the Hamptons, Long Island, NY 2000

COMMERCIAL RECORDINGS :

Franco Alfano : Concerto for Piano, Violin and Cello;
Cello Sonata – with Sam Magill, cello and Elmira Darvarova, violin,
Naxos 2009 (awaiting release)

Vernon Duke : Piano and Cello Concertos and Homage to Boston Suite , Naxos 2007 (8.559286)

Lukas Foss : Complete Solo Piano Works , Naxos 2005 (8.559179)

Irwin Bazelon: Junctures,  Sunday Silence , Albany 2003 (Troy 602)

James Sellars : Piano Works , CRI 2001 (869)

Scott Dunn : the night's music , illia 1999 (illia 60101 at amazon.com)

Irwin Bazelon : Fairy Tale - Fusions , Albany 1998 ( Troy 282 )

Roger Reynolds : The Paris Pieces , Neuma 1996 (450-91)

Irwin Bazelon : In Memorium , Albany 1995 ( Troy 174 )

PREMIERES AND FIRST PERFORMANCES:

Franco Alfano : ‘Concerto for Violin, Cello and Piano’ (American Premiere) Bruno Walter Auditorium, Lincoln Center
NY, 2008

Richard Rodney Bennett: ‘The Garden’ (dedicated to Stuart and Merill Robertson and Nick Russell for the Glimmerglass Young Artists Program) for sixteen solo voices and piano, conduct world premiere Busch Auditorium, Glimmerglass Opera, Cooperstown NY, 2006

Richard Rodney Bennett: ‘Portsmouth Point’ by Lord Berners (arranged Richard Rodney Bennett) played with Bennett American premiere, Bruno Walter Auditorium, NYC, 2005

Richard Rodney Bennett: ‘The Ballad of Sweet William’ for Children’s Chorus and piano 4 hands (performed with composer) and Young Peoples Chorus of New York City world premiere, Society for Ethical Culture and WQXR radio NYC, 2004

Richard Rodney Bennett: ‘Noctuary– for solo piano’, performed west coast premiere, Zipper Hall, LA, Ca 2004

Vernon Duke: ‘Piano concerto in C (orch Dunn 1998)’, performed world premier with ACO Carnegie Hall 1999

Ricky Ian Gordon: ‘Orfeus and Euridice’ performed world premiere with Elizabeth Farnum, soprano and Todd Palmer, clarinet, Cooper Union, NYC, 2001; also conducted

Ricky Ian Gordon: new review entitled “2244 Shore Point Road”  first performance conducted for “la Fabbrica” Teatro Giotto , Vicchio, Tuscany , Italy 2003

John Harbison: ‘Waging Peace’ performed west coast premiere for Song Fest with soprano Natalie Janssen, Gloria Cheng et al for ‘SongFest 2005’ Pepperdine University, Malibu, Ca 2005

Peter Lieberson: ‘King Gesar’ performed New York premiere with Kurt Ollman, baritone and Eos Orchestra, Alice Tully Hall, 1997

Ned Rorem: “Another Sleep” played world premiere with baritone Kurt Ollman, for Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Alice Tully Hall NYC, 2002

ORCHESTRATIONS, EDITIONS and CREDITS:

Vernon Duke (orch. Dunn 1998): ‘Piano Concerto in C’

George Gershwin: ‘Porgy and Bess – 1935 original production version’ edited by John Mauceri with assistance from Wayne Shirley, Charles Hamm and Scott Dunn 2006

Danny Elfmann (Dunn asst. producer 2006): ‘Serenada Schizophrana’ Sony Classical Multichannel SACD 82876-89780

Danny Elfman (Dunn supervising orchestrator and editor): ‘Rabbit and Rogue’ commissioned by Twyla Tharp and the ABT, premiering at the Metropolitan Opera NYC 2008

Arnold Schoenberg (orch. Dunn 2001): ‘Four Cabaret Songs for Soprano and Thirteen Players’

FORMAL EDUCATION :

Masters of Music, Manhattan School of Music
Vocal Chamber Fellowship, Aspen Music Festival and School
Fellowship and Residency in Ophthalmology, Doheny Eye Institute/USC
Internship in Medicine and Surgery , L.A. County/USC Medical Center
Medical Doctorate , University of Iowa
Post-graduate Studies in Music , University of Southern California
Bachelors of Music ( summa cum laude) , University of Iowa

TEACHERS :

Conducting - Harold Farberman , Daniel Lewis and Jorge Mester

Piano - Byron Janis , Joseph Kalichstein,  Daniel Pollock, Brooks Smith, John Simms and Alice Hackett

Composition/Orchestration – Leonard Rosenman , Ludmila Ulehla and Sir Richard Rodney Bennett

HONORS AND AWARDS :

Helen Cohn Award for Outstanding Chamber Pianist, Manhattan School of Music
President's Award , Manhattan School of Music
Fellowship, Aspen Vocal Chamber Program
Music Associates of Aspen Full Scholarship
Winner , Arts America Artistic Ambassador Competition
Phi Beta Kappa
Full Ride Merit Scholarship , University of Iowa

Other Associates :

Board member, Lotte Lehmann Foundation, NY 2005-present
Fellow , American College of Surgeons
Fellow , American Academy of Ophthalmology
Voluntary faculty, University of Southern California School of Medicine, Los Angeles , Ca, 1993-present

OTHER ASSOCIATIONS:

Board member, Lotte Lehmann Foundation, NY 2005-present
Fellow , American College of Surgeons
Fellow , American Academy of Ophthalmology
Voluntary faculty, University of Southern California School of Medicine, Los Angeles , Ca, 1993-present

PUBLICATIONS AND COURSES TAUGHT:

Dunn, S.A.: ‘Dunn’s Orchestral Translator – A phrasebook and lexicon for the international musician in English, French, Italian and German’  (in prep/awaiting release) 2007

‘Introduction to Orchestral Conducting’, taught at University of Bridgehampton , Bridgehampton , Conn, 1998-1999.