Scott Wheeler announces the release of his fifth album Naga (New World Records), a fairy tale two-act opera set to a libretto by Singapore-born Cerise Lim Jacobs and creatively produced
The trio 120 Proof will premiere Traveling Light at National Sawdust July 10, 2020. The work is commissioned by National Sawdust for clarinetist Chris Grymes.
In the summer of 2019, Scott was composer in residence at the Chamber Music Conference of the East, based at Bennington College in Vermont. They performed his trio Camera Dances
Wang Dan was one of the pro‐democracy student protesters who were involved in the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre; he spent the next seven years as a political prisoner. While in
Free Land is Scott’s choral setting of the words of Anthony Burns, who was born enslaved in Stafford County, Virginia and escaped to Boston, where in 1854 he was was
Caravaggio: the Lee Hyla opera that might have been American music lost a major composer when Lee Hyla died in 2014. Five years later, in the journal Sounds American, Scott
As a fellow at the Center for Ballet and the Arts, Scott was invited to curate a series of discussions on the relation between music and dance. The first discussion
Scott writes musical portraits “from life,” that is in the presence of the portrait subject, sketching what he hears on music paper. In this practice Scott follows his teacher Virgil
Gil Shaham and Akira Eguchi have taken Scott’s 2017 sonata “The Singing Turk” to thousands of listeners around the world, with performances from Boston to Palo Alto to Tokyo. This
