Faculty Biography
Scott Perkins, Lecturer
Contact:
(585) 415-9747
jperkin2@naz.edu
Departmental Responsibilities:
Music Theory
Composition
Education:
Eastman School of Music, MA
Boston University, BMus, summa cum laude
Biography:
Connecticut native Scott Perkins (b. 1980) is a versatile composer of chamber and choral music, art song and musical theatre, solo instrumental works, electroacoustic installations and music for film. His compositions have been performed throughout North America and Europe and have won international prizes. A performer devoted particularly to early and new vocal music, Scott has concertized as a tenor throughout the United States, England, Mexico, Scotland, and Norway. During his tenure as president of Ossia, Eastman’s student-run new music ensemble, he supervised a successful concert season and instituted its first international composition competition, which received over sixty submissions from four continents. He also served as Ossia’s director of public relations for two years.
As a researcher, Scott is particularly interested in compositional process in the music of Benjamin Britten and issues in the pedagogy of music theory. In 2006, on a grant from Eastman, he conducted sketch studies at the Britten-Pears Library in Aldeburgh, England, for a second consecutive summer. His paper, “‘Voices of Boys’: The Influence of Britten’s Missa Brevis in D on his War Requiem,” won the New York State/St. Lawrence chapter of the American Musicological Society’s award for the best student paper presented at its 2008 meeting. Scott has also served on the board of the music theory journal Integrál, of which he was also the graphics editor.
Scott is currently a doctoral candidate at Eastman, where he studies with Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon. He is also assistant director of the Christ Church Schola Cantorum, with which he performs weekly. His current composition projects include a ballet with pipe organ, electric violin, and orchestra; and a new musical. He holds degrees from Boston University and the Eastman School of Music in composition and music theory.