JOHN SCOTT, conductor
Born in Wakefield, Yorkshire, England in 1956, John Scott received his earliest musical training as a Cathedral Chorister. While still in school he received diplomas from the Royal College of Organists and won major prizes in organ performance. In 1974 he was named Organ Scholar at St. John’s College, Cambridge, where for four years he served as assistant to the legendary George Guest.
Having graduated from Cambridge University, Mr. Scott was appointed Assistant Organist at London’s two Anglican Cathedrals, Southwark and Saint Paul’s. He served the latter for a remarkable, unbroken tenure of 25 years, first as Assistant Sub-Organist in 1978, becoming Sub-Organist in 1985, and succeeding Christopher Dearnley as Organist and Director of Music in 1990.
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John Scott assumed his post of Organist and Director of Music at Saint Thomas Church, Fifth Avenue, New York City in September, 2004, succeeding Gerre Hancock who had held the post for 33 years. Mr. Scott’s first three seasons with the Choir included concerts of Haydn’s “Nelson” Mass, Mozart’s Requiem, Handel’s Messiah, both The St. John and St. Matthew Passions by J. S. Bach, Haydn’s Creation, a program of Bach Cantatas, Mozart’s Solemn Vespers and Coronation Mass, the Mozart arrangement of Messiah, and the Rachmaninov Vespers. All this is over and above the almost daily choral liturgy for which St Thomas Church is famed.
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