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

Music Associates of Aspen School Full Scholarship

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 .