Frank Scott
Coordinator, Piano Studies
Frank.Scott@nau.edu
(928) 523-3800
Building 37A, Room 194
Frank E. Scott, director of the Piano Program at NAU and the NAU Summer Music Camp, made his Arizona debut in 1976 performing a Mozart concerto with conductor Izler Solomon. Dr. Scott has appeared in numerous solo and chamber music performances, including collaborations with artists for the NAU Performing Artists Series, Flagstaff Festival of the Arts, the Sedona Chamber Music Series and the NAU Spectrum Series.
His performances include the premiere of Willam Hill’s Piano Concerto,
the Bartok Piano Concerto No 3 with the Flagstaff Symphony and the
Janacek Capriccio. In the spring of 1999, Scott performed
the Grieg Piano Concerto in honor of Catharine Adel, NAU’s
musical benefactress. He was convention artist for the ASMTA convention
held at NAU in the summer of 2000. In May of 2002, Dr. Scott performed
the Strauss Burleske with the NAU orchestra and in 2003 he gave
the Arizona premier of Einojuhani Rautavaara’s Piano Concerto No.
1 with the Flagstaff Symphony.
Dr. Scott has been on the faculty at the University of Minnesota-Morris,
St. Louis Universtiy, the University of Memphis and the Delta Music Festival. He
holds degrees in piano from the Cleveland Institute of Music, Michigan State
University and the University of Iowa. His principal teachers include
Elizabeth Pastor, Ralph Votapek, Joseph Evans and John Simms. In 1992
he studied with Jerome Lowenthal in New York. He has also studied with Jeffrey
Swann.
Dr. Scott’s students have gone on to receive masters and doctorates in piano and are teaching in colleges and universities. In addition, many of his students regularly attend summer music festivals and have appeared in master classes with prominent artists.