A. Scott Wood, Conductor

Current Positions
The Amadeus Orchestra; Guest Conductor (2005)
This professional ensemble, upon consulting its board of music advisors, chose Wood to conduct its first concert after the death of its founding conductor.

Montgomery Symphony Orchestra; Music Director, (since 2002)
This orchestra with a fifty-year history sustains affiliations with the Montgomery County Composer’s Forum and the Maryland State Music Teachers Association, whose competition winners perform with the MSO.

Washington Conservatory Orchestra; Music Director, (since 1995)
The WCO is a full orchestra of amateurs and volunteer professionals. Its repertory includes neglected works and lesser-known composers.

National Cathedral School & St. Albans School (since 1996), Director of Instrumental Music (since 2002); Fellowship to Italy, 2002
The instrumental program includes several ensembles that perform in Washington National Cathedral, often with the Chorale.

Fairfax Symphony Orchestra; Assistant Conductor (since 2001)
The Fairfax Symphony maintains an annual operating budget exceeding a million dollars. Wood has conducted the FSO at the Shenandoah Valley Music Festival and recently wrote, arranged and directed and a new concert presentation for children.

Washington Savoyards; Music Director, Conductor (since 2004)
This Washington-area institution presents fully-staged works in the Duke Ellington Theatre in Georgetown, concentrating on the works of Gilbert & Sullivan.

Eldbrooke Opera; Conductor, (since 2003)
Housed in a national landmark building, Eldbrooke Opera brings fully-staged performances of great operas directly into the Northwest Washington community.

Recent Positions
American University Orchestra; Conductor-in-Residence, 2003-2004
A year-long interim position which led to a considerable growth of the orchestra in size, quality and morale as well as highly-regarded performances.

Signature Theatre; Associate Conductor, 2000-2003
Including Guettel’s “Floyd Collins” and Krieger’s “Sideshow”(Best Resident Musical, 2001 Helen Hayes Awards) at the theater considered Sondheim’s “home away from home”.

Old Bridge Chamber Orchestra; Guest Conductor, 2001, 2005
After guest conducting in the past, Wood was asked to present a 2005 performance based on Spanish themes and featuring many of his own arrangements.

Other Experience
Conductors Guild National Conf., NYC; Young Conductors Panel, 2003
American Youth Symphony Orchestra; Substitute Conductor, 2004, 2005
Prince William Youth Symphony; Substitute Conductor, 2005
Chesapeake Youth Symphony; Substitute Conductor, 2003
Meeting House Orchestra; Music Director, 2000-2002
Potomac Valley Youth Symphony Orchestra; Acting Music Director, 2002
Washington Symphonic Brass, Milt Stevens, dir.; Asst. Cond., April 2001
Concurso Internacional de Canto Lirico (Peru); Lecturer/Conductor, 2000
Borders “College of Classical Knowledge”; Lecturer, 1997-1999
Shenandoah Valley Youth Symphony; Acting Conductor, 1995
Equinox Winds, Washington, D.C.; Music Director, 1993-94
The Washington Post called Equinox Winds “polished” and lauded its “warm & admirably clear” tone and “fine sense of shade and color”
American Wind Symphony; Substitute Conductor, 1989
Tour of Europe, Great Britain and Soviet Union

Trumpeter
1989-2004
Washington Opera & American Ballet Theatre (Kennedy Center)
Smithsonian Chamber Orchestra
Richmond Symphony Orchestra
Fairfax, Alexandria, Annapolis & Harrisburg Symphony Orchestras
National Chamber Orchestra
Virginia Chamber Orchestra
San Francisco Ballet (Wolf Trap)
Folger Elizabethan Theater
Fennell Wind Ensemble (Library of Congress)
Brass Mosaic (Carnegie Concert Hall)
The National Trumpet Competition; College Division Adjudicator, 1995
International Trumpet Guild Solo Competition Finalist, London, 1986

Composer/Arranger
“Fanfare for a New Beginning” broadcast nationwide on C-SPAN, 2000
Commission and Premiere by Virginia Chamber Players, 1994
Arranging work called “engaging” by The Washington Post, 1993

Training
American Symphony Orchestra League Workshops, 2004, ‘01, ‘00, ‘98 & ‘96
Dennis Keene Choral Festival, 2001
unsolicited conducting fellowship awarded by the Emory & Geraldine Ford Foundation through Chorus America at the recommendation of Donald Thulean
Conductors Guild Workshops, 1999 & 1997
International Workshop for Conductors, Zlin, Czech Republic, 1996
The Conductor’s Institute of South Carolina; Fellow, 1994 & 1995
                             
Workshop Faculty:  •Victoria Bond  •Thomas Conlin  •Leslie Dunner  •JoAnn Falletta  •John Giordano 
•David Loebel  •Daniel Lewis  •Kenneth Kiesler  •Gustav Meier •Larry Newland  •Samuel Jones  •Jorge Mester  •Donald Portnoy  •Robert Spano •Donald Thulean  •Leos Svarovsky  •Kirk Trevor •Paul Vermel  •Victor Yampolsky  •Tsung Yeh •Christopher Wilkins •Leif Bjaland

The University of Illinois: MM, 1989; BS with High Honors, 1987
•Conducting Studies with Paul Vermel (orchestral) & James Keene (wind ensemble)
•James & Jaeger Scholar • Honor Society •Harding & Duker Awards