Composer Kerry R. Scott was born in England in 1949. He was generally educated in the United Kingdom and remained in England until the age of eighteen. While domiciled in England he studied Piano, Trumpet, Percussion, Music Theory and Music Composition. at the Watford School of Music, Watford, Hertfordshire. UK.
Mr. Scott continued his musical education at Oberlin College Conservatory of Music in Oberlin Ohio. U.S.A. At Oberlin Conservatory he majored in Music Composition with minor studies in Trumpet and Communications. His composition studies were with Richard Hoffman, Randolph Coleman and Joseph Wood. In addition he did special studies in Computer Music with John Clough and analog Electronic Music with Olly Wilson and a number of other exponents of the subject.
Since graduation Mr. Scott has functioned as music director at a number of schools in both the United States of America and the United Kingdom. In the United States he was appointed Music Director at Wooster School Danbury CT., founded and directed The Tudor Rose School of Music. Ridgefield CT. and in the U.K. he served as Music Director at St. Bede's School. Upper Dicker, East Sussex, and The Convent of Our Lady. Hastings, East Sussex. In both the U.S.A. and the UK. he has formed, conducted and coached a number of ensembles and choirs. 
In particular he was appointed Music Director of the Hailsham And Vines Cross Modern Brass, a traditional English Brass Band and Organist and Music Director of St. Wilfrid's Catholic Church, Hailsham, East Sussex U.K.(see picture inserts) Mr. Scott has served as Art Administrators and consultants to a number of arts organizations, art festivals and art councils, including South Elementary School, Plymouth MA., Milford Fine Arts Council, Milford, CT.,and The Witch Hollow Farm Preservation Association, Boxford, MA. Throughout his life, he has, however, made his main concern the composition of music. Mr. Scott has concentrated on the composition of analog Electronic Music and computer generated and realized composition.
For the last ten years Mr. Scott has developed his own technique for the composition, production and realization of Electronic Music. Indeed he has developed a novel technique for integrating "virtual" instruments and traditional techniques of composition with "new" instrumental sounds and contemporary compositional approaches. His CD's Bubble and Squeak and Rattle and Rhyme and Beyond The Virtual Creation are good but early examples of his novel technique and expertise in the composition and realization of both analog and digital electronic music. It should be noted, however, that these examples use early and limited forms of computer composition and realization. In December 2003 he presented a fourth CD titled Brandy Butter, Brass and Bells. This fourth CD (written for a holiday celebration) represented a move of composition realization technique from a system using the Amiga computer system to a PC MIDI system; thus providing more variation and increased quality in the instrument sounds as well as an enhanced sound quality. Since that time three further CD's have been released under this new system -- The Old, the New and an Eclectic Medley, Mass 2100-revised and Symphony No. 1 -- Soundscapes of a Forgotten Britain
During the last few years Mr. Scott has put together a compositional studio that is uniquely geared to his compositional style. This boasts of both analog instruments and digital equipment interfaced together to produce a flexible and possibly unique output that is the signature of Mr. Scott's compositions.
Mr. Scott's music has two distinct styles.
Firstly, although electronically realized and composed utilizing the computer, this style is traditional. He utilizes baroque harmonies and forms as well as creating "virtual" instruments with slight enhancement(changes). This creates the illusion of traditional instrumental groups playing within a "real", rather than a "virtual", environment. In addition appreciation of these works is made easier by the use of traditional and established harmonic, melodic and formal structures techniques.
Secondly, his composition style follows the trend of atonal music as demonstrated by Arnold Schoenberg and more recently Milton Babbit. In addition aleatory techniques are also employed within this Electronic music framework. Novel and new instrumental "virtual" sounds are featured and this together with an avant garde approach and traditional frameworks of composition make this style both interesting and exiting for the listener.
In addition to his electronic music production Mr. Scott continues to compose traditional music as commissioned by individuals. He has gained considerable success in composing music for religious services such as wedding ceremonies, christenings etc. In addition Mr. Scott has composed a large scale setting of the Roman Catholic Thanksgiving Mass -- Mass 2100. Many Parts of this musical Mass form can be used with simple accompaniment and small choir or just a cantor.
Mr. Scott is pleased to be able to offer representative CD's of his diverse compositional style and in addition to offer his compositional services to write composition commissions for interested individuals. See Compositions commission details.
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