Dr. Scott Weiss

Conn Selmer Educational Clinician

Scott Weiss is the Music Director and Conductor of the Aiken Symphony Orchestra and the Director of Orchestras at the University of South Carolina School of Music. In demand internationally as a guest conductor, Scott has conducted performances with the orchestras of Shenzhen, Tianjin, Hunan, Inner Mongolia, Shandong, and Nanchang. Soloists he has recently shared the stage with include Elena Urioste, Angelo Xiang Yu, Zuill Bailey, John O’Conor, Natasha Paremski, Marina Lomazov, and Paul Jacobs. Scott has several critically-acclaimed recordings on the Naxos Records and Summit Records labels, and he has commissioned works by composers such as Samuel Adler, Jennifer Higdon, Zhou Long, Cindy McTee, and Joseph Schwanter. He has taught around the world, including at the University of Western Australia, the Central Conservatory of Music, and the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, and each summer he teaches at the Los Angeles Conducting Workshop.