Dr. Deb Scott

Assistant Professor, Trombone
Director, SFA Jazz Band II
Stephen F. Austin State University
Nacogdoches, Texas

D.M.A., University of North Texas
M.M., University of Northern Colorado
B.M., B.M.E., Texas Tech University

Background
DEB SCOTT teaches trombone and bass trombone and is the director of SFA's jazz band, The Swingin’ Aces. She is active as a performer and clinician in both classical and jazz styles. She is currently a member of the Longview Symphony under the direction of Maestro Tonu Kalum as well as The Orchestra of the Pines under Gene Moon. Recently, Dr. Scott was featured as part of the International Trombone Festival’s Cramer Trombone Choir, an international group of university trombone teachers under the director of Jay Friedman, principal trombonist of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. She has also been a member of the Twentieth Century Unlimited Orchestra in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the New Mexico Music Festival Orchestra in Taos, the Lubbock Symphony Orchestra (Texas), the Greeley Philharmonic (Colorado) and the Barnum and Bailey Greatest Show on Earth Circus Band.

Dr. Scott regularly reviews CDs for the International Trombone Association Journal and contributes pedagogical information to the Texas School Music Project web site.

Before coming to SFA, Dr. Scott was the director of bands at Wharton College and performed frequently in the Houston area as the lead trombonist for the Ronnie Renfrow Big Band and as a freelancer in the jazz, salsa, and classical styles.

She recently completed her doctorate in trombone performance at the University of North Texas. Her teachers included Vern Kagarice, Buddy Baker, and Robert Deahl.

Interests, Activities & Plans
Deb Scott is a member of the International Trombone Association, the International Association for Jazz Education, the Texas Music Educators Association, Tau Beta Sigma, and the American Federation of Musicians.

Other Interesting Things
Deb Scott and her husband, G.W. Scott, Jr., have two children: a daughter, Rachel; and a son, Jordan. They also enjoy kayaking, gardening, snow skiing and rollerblading.

Listen to some RealAudio excerpts of Dr. Scott's performances:

Misty - Music by Erroll Garner

Trombone Concerto - Bourgeois - II. Adagio

Trombone Concerto - Bourgeois - III. Really Fast

Variations sur Le Carnaval de Venise - Arban - arr. Hunsberger

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