Marion Scott, piano
Dr. Marion Wilkinson Scott made his debut at the age of 14 under the baton of Roger Nuremberg. In 2006 his musicality and technical prowess earned First Prize at the Thousand Islands International Piano Competition and second prize at the Zimmerli Foundation International Piano Competition. Dr. Scott was named the winner of the 2010 International Piano Competition hosted by the Steinway Society of Massachusetts. He has given concerts both nationally and internationally and appeared in noted concert halls such as Carnegie Hall, Kilbourn Hall and Crouse Hall.
As a soloist, clinician, lecturer and chamber musician he has also been invited to such noted summer festivals as: The Gingold International Chamber Music Festival, The Brevard Music Center, the Palmetto International Piano Festival and the Zenith Chamber Music Festival (among others); and gives regular performances of the piano quintet repertoire with the Belin String Quartet.
Dr. Scott holds a Bachelors Degree from the Eastman School of Music, a Masters Degree from the Juilliard School and a Doctorate of Musical Arts from the Frost School of Music. His primary teachers at these schools include noted pedagogues Martin Canin and Seymour Lipkin, Douglas Humpherys, Tian Ying and Mary Lou Wesley Krosnick.
As an educator, Dr. Scott has served as a teaching fellow for the Piano Minors program at the Juilliard School and the Frost School of Music and for theory classes at the Juilliard School and the Brevard Music Center. He has also received such prestigious scholarships as the Irene Diamond Scholarship (The Juilliard School) and the Howard Hanson Scholarship (The Eastman School of Music). Dr. Scott was the Artistic Director for the St. Andrew's Concert Series in Miami, Florida from 2011 – 2022 and currently serves as the Artistic Director for the Florida Young Artists International Piano Competition. His students carry a record of success in competitions and auditions.
Dr. Scott is a passionate advocate for the preservation and performance of the great works of Sacred Choral Music. As such he has conducted complete performances of: Mozart’s Requiem in d minor, Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem (on the 100th anniversary of the composer’s passing), Schubert’s Mass in G Major, Vivaldi’s Gloria in D Major, Handel’s Messiah, the Oratorio de Noel of Camille Saint-Saëns, William Byrd’s Mass in Five Voices and the Vaughan William’s Fantasia on Carols (among other major choral works). Dr. Scott currently serves as the Director of Music at St. Augustin Catholic Church in Des Moines, Iowa.
