SCOTT DUNN – conductor and pianist
Website: http://www.scott-dunn.com
Personal Representative:
Ellyn Kusmin
PO Box 2110, Lenox, Ma 01240-5110
phone 413 854 1170
Email ekusmin@gmail.com
Robbi Kearns
Kearns Artists Services
Phone 718 606 2347
Email Robbi@kearnsartistservices.com
CURRENT POSITIONS AND APPOINTMENTS:
Assistant Conductor – LA Philharmonic
Association/Hollywood Bowl Orchestra 2007 to present
PRIOR PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS:
Associate Conductor – Pittsburgh Opera
Pittsburgh PA , 2006 to 2007
Assistant Conductor - Glimmerglass Opera
Cooperstown , NY 2006
Associate Music Director - Music Festival of the Hamptons Long Island, NY 1999-2002
Conducting Assistant – Hollywood Bowl Orchestra
Los Angeles, Ca 2002, 2003, 2005
Orchestral Pianist for Eos Orchestra, NY 1997-1999
Touring Pianist for Martha Graham Dance Company, NY 1997
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 - Jorge Mester, Daniel Lewis and Harold Farberman
Piano - Byron Janis , Daniel Pollock , Brooks Smith , John Simms and Alice Hackett
Composition/Orchestration – Leonard Rosenman , Ludmila Ulehla and Sir Richard Rodney Bennett
HONORS AND AWARDS :
Winner , USIS Arts America Artistic Ambassador Competition
President's Award and Helen Cohn Award for Outstanding Chamber Pianist, Manhattan School of Music
Fellowship, Aspen Vocal Chamber Program
Phi Beta Kappa
Full Ride Merit Scholarship, University of Iowa
Distinguished Alumni Fellow Award, University of Iowa
PREMIERES AND FIRST PERFORMANCES :
John Adams : Road Movies for Violin and Piano (West coast premiere with violinist Alyssa Park) for Jacaranda and the LA Philharmonic’s WEST COAST/LEFT COAST Festival, LA CA September 2009
Franco Alfano : Concerto for Violin, Cello and Piano (American Premiere) Bruno Walter Auditorium, Lincoln Center
NY, 2008
Richard Rodney Bennett: The Garden (dedicated to Stewart and Meryl 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
Vernon Duke : Sonata for Violin and Piano (NY premiere) Symphony Space, NYC NY 2009
Ricky Ian Gordon: Orfeus and Euridice performed world premiere with Elizabeth Farnum, soprano and Todd Palmer, clarinet, Cooper Union, NYC, 2001
Ricky Ian Gordon: conducted 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, cellist Steven Iserlis and Eos Orchestra, Alice Tully Hall, 1997
Scott Davenport Richards: Star Across the Ocean conducted premiere of suite from the opera for NY City Opera’s Vox festival of new American opera, Skirball Auditorium, NYC 2010
Leonard Roseman: Rosenman/Vitali Ciaccone for Violin and Orchestra (conducted US premiere) with violinist Greg Fulkerson and the NYU Symphony, Skirball Auditorium, NYC
2010
Ned Rorem: Another Sleep performed world premiere with baritone Kurt Ollman, for Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Alice Tully Hall NYC, 2002
Maria Schneider : Aires de Lando conducted Hollywood Bowl premiere with Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, LA 2009
Julian Wachner : Evangeline Revisited conducted premier of newly re-orchestrated scenes for NY City Opera’s Vox festival of American opera, Skirball Auditorium, NYC 2010
COMMERCIAL RECORDINGS :
Franco Alfano : Concerto for Piano, Violin and Cello; Cello
Sonata – with Sam Magill, cello and Elmira Darvarova, violin, Naxos 2009 (8.570928)
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 )
ORCHESTRATIONS, EDITIONS, PRODUCER CREDITS AND FILMWORK:
2008 - Danny Elfman (Dunn supervising orchestrator and editor): Rabbit and Rogue commissioned by Twyla Tharp and the ABT, premiering at the Metropolitan Opera NYC 2008
2008 – STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE (film). Director Errol Morris and music Danny Elfman; piano Scott Dunn. Participant Productions
2006 - Danny Elfman (Dunn asst. producer 2006): Serenada Schizophrana Sony Classical Multichannel SACD 82876-89780
2006 – IMAX DEEP SEA 3-D (film). Director Howard Hall and music Danny Elfman; Asst. conductor Scott Dunn. Warner Bros.
2006 - George Gershwin: PORGY AND BESS – 1935 original production version edited by John Mauceri with assistance from Wayne Shirley, Charles Hamm and Scott Dunn. European American Music publishers
2001 - Arnold Schoenberg/orch. Scott Dunn: Four Cabaret Songs for Soprano and Thirteen Players (available from Scott Dunn Music)
1998 - Vernon Duke/orch. Scott Dunn: Piano Concerto in C Boosey and Hawkes publishers
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) 2010
‘Introduction to Orchestral Conducting’, University of Bridgehampton , Bridgehampton , Conn, 1998-1999 .