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
Latest News & Updates
New Selection of Vocal Works
Dreams, Lies & Love Songs
Scott is pleased to announce that a newly published collection of twelve songs for voice and piano is now available for purchase at NewMusicShelf.com
New World Records
Naga Album Release
Scott announces the release of his fifth album Naga, a fairy tale two-act opera set to a libretto by Singapore-born Cerise Lim Jacobs and creatively produced by Beth Morrison Projects.
December 14th at 6 PM
An Evening Of Poetry & Song
Join us for a special evening of song and spoken word featuring five acclaimed Boston-area poets: Jeffrey Harrison, Regie Gibson, Megan Marshall, Anna V. Q. Ross, and Lloyd Schwartz.
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.
Featured Video
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. “
