Scott Wheeler is an award-winning composer, conductor, pianist, teacher and writer on music. Best known for his operas and vocal music, he has also gained wide recognition as a composer of symphonies, concertos, chamber works, solo piano music and ballet.
Award-Winning Composer
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Italy
Gil Shaham and Akira Eguchi
May 2020 Scott’s 2017 sonata The Singing Turk in recital in Bari, Bologna and Milano, featuring violinist Gil Shaham and Akira Eguchi with a program that spans through centuries.
Villa La Pietra
NYU Florence
Scott accompanies Stani Dimitrova in the sonata and soprano Kristina Bachrach of Brooklyn Art Song Society in the premiere of the soprano-piano version of Scott’s Canzoni Italiane.
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
National Sawdust
July 2020 sees the premiere of Scott’s trio Traveling Light, featuring Chris Grymes and his trio 120 Proof. Commissioned by National Sawdust in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
A Leading Composer of His Generation
Featured Works
Composer Scott Wheeler’s operas have been commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera, Washington National Opera. the Guggenheim Foundation and White Snake Projects. His music has been performed by violinist Gil Shaham, conductor Kent Nagano, and singers Renee Fleming, Sanford Sylvan, and Susanna Phillips.
Naga
90'
(libretto by Cerise Jacobs) Opera in two acts (Published by Peer Music Classical) Commissioned and premiered by Friends of Madame White Snake and Boston Lyric Opera, 2016. Workshops at New England Conservatory and Boston University.
The Sorrows of Frederick
2 Hours
(Published by Peer Music Classical) (libretto by Romulus Linney) Opera in two acts Commissioned and premiered by The Metropolitan Opera and Lincoln Center Theatre.
Nightingale
90'
Choreography and scenario by Melissa Barak (lyrics by Kathryn Levy) Ballet in two acts (in progress) featuring solo soprano. Based on The Emperor and the Nightingale by Hans Christian Anderson.
Democracy: An American Comedy
2 Hours
(libretto by Romulus Linney) Opera in two acts Commissioned and premiered by Washington National Opera, 2005. Scenes from this work were presented at Boston Conservatory in April 1998 and at American Opera Projects in New York, October 1998. Excerpts presented at Vox (Showcasing American Music) New York City Opera.
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Composed By Scott Wheeler
Appealingly Modest, Witty, Elegant, and Tuneful
Projects in Development
In recent seasons, Scott has been developing projects with librettists, poets, playwrights, choreographers and visual artists. These include:
CRITICAL ACCLAIM
” The vocal lines are gleaming and utterly natural in their contours… The music brims with wit, freshness of voice, careful craftsmanship, and, in the end, an open-hearted beauty. It is, in other words, typical Scott Wheeler. “
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