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TOPIC:- KERRY R. SCOTT (1949 - )
Composer Kerry R. Scott was born in England in 1949. He was completed his general education in the United Kingdom and remained in England until the age of eighteen.
Mr. Scott continued his musical education at Oberlin College Conservatory of Music in Oberlin Ohio. U.S.A. At Oberlin Conservatory he majored in Music Composition with minor studies in Trumpet and Communications.
Since graduation Mr. Scott has functioned as music director at a number of schools in both the United States of America and the United Kingdom. In the United States he was appointed Music Director at Wooster School Danbury CT., founded and directed The Tudor Rose School of Music. Ridgefield CT. and in the U.K. he served as Music Director at St. Bede's School. Upper Dicker, East Sussex, and The Convent of Our Lady. Hastings, East Sussex. Throughout his life, Mr. Scott has, however, made his main concern the composition of music. In particular he has concentrated on the composition of analog Electronic Music and computer generated and realized composition.
For the last ten years Mr. Scott has developed his own technique for the composition, production and realization of Electronic Music. Indeed he has developed a novel technique for integrating "virtual" instruments and traditional techniques of composition with "new" instrumental sounds and contemporary compositional approaches. His CD's Bubble and Squeak and Rattle and Rhyme and Beyond The Virtual Creation are good but early examples of his novel technique and expertise in the composition and realization of both analog and digital electronic music. It should be noted, however, that these examples use early and limited forms of computer composition and realization. In December 2003 he presented a fourth CD titled Brandy Butter, Brass and Bells. This fourth CD (written for a holiday celebration) represented a move of composition realization technique from a system using the Amiga computer system to a PC MIDI system; thus providing more variation and increased quality in the instrument sounds as well as an enhanced sound quality. Since that time three further CD's have been released under this new system -- The Old, the New and an Eclectic Medley, Mass 2100-revised and Symphony No. 1 -- Soundscapes of a Forgotten Britain
Mr. Scott's music has two distinct styles. Firstly, although electronically realized and composed utilizing the computer, this style is traditional. Secondly, his composition style follows the trend of atonal music as demonstrated by Arnold Schoenberg and more recently Milton Babbit.
In addition to his electronic music production Mr. Scott continues to compose traditional music as commissioned by individuals. He has gained considerable success in composing music for religious services such as wedding ceremonies, christenings etc. In addition Mr. Scott has composed a large scale setting of the Roman Catholic Thanksgiving Mass -- Mass 2100.
Mr. Scott is pleased to be able to offer representative CD's of his diverse compositional style and in addition to offer his compositional services to write composition commissions for interested individuals. See Compositions commission details.
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ScottOpus Productions Website
Further information on Kerry R. Scott's life and Compositions
Further Information on The Tudor Rose School of Music
Further information on the Music CD -- Bubble and Squeak
Further information on the Music CD -- Beyond the Virtual Creation
Further information on the Music CD -- Brandy Butter, Brass and Bells
Further information on the Music CD -- The Old, The New, and an Eclectic Medley
Further information on the Music CD -- Mass 2100
Orchestral Suite from Mass 2100 and Mass 2100 original performance edition.
Further information on the Music CD -- Smphony No. ! -- Soundscapes of a Forgotten Britian
Further information on the stories and writings of Kerry R. Scott.
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