ALEXANDER SCOTT is pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts in Conducting, Band & Wind Ensemble at the University of Michigan, where he currently serves as a graduate student instructor. 

An experienced educator, Scott taught for nine years at the elementary, middle, and high school levels in Maryland public schools. For seven years, he was the Music Department Chair and Director of Instrumental Music at Meade Senior High School in Fort Meade, Maryland, where he was responsible for conducting the Concert Band, String Orchestra, Philharmonic Orchestra, Marching Band, Jazz Band, Steelband, and Pit Orchestra, as well as instructing International Baccalaureate (IB) Music, Advanced Placement (AP) Music Theory, and Guitar courses. Additionally, he served as the school’s advisor for the Tri-M Music Honors Society.

While teaching at Meade Senior High School, Scott’s bands and orchestras consistently earned excellent and superior ratings at county and state adjudication festivals and his marching band earned 2nd place at the 2018 USBands Mid-Atlantic Regional Championships. His concert band was a member of a commission consortium for Anthony O’Toole’s “Latin Dance Movements.” Scott was a semifinalist for Music and Arts’ national Music Educator of the Year award (2016) and the Maryland winner for School Band and Orchestra Magazine’s 50 Directors Who Make a Difference Award (2018). His departmental leadership was twice recognized by the NAMM foundation with a Best Communities in Music Education designation (2018, 2019).

​Scott earned his M.M. in Music Education from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, his M.M. in Instrumental Conducting at the University of Maryland, and his B.A. in Music Education from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). While at UMBC, Scott served as the inaugural undergraduate conducting fellow with the Wind Ensemble. Scott is a member of the College Band Directors National Association, National Association for Music Education, Maryland Music Educators Association, and the Flute Society of Washington.

Scott’s primary conducting teachers include Michael Haithcock and Michael Votta.