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Born and raised in Houston, Texas, Mark Scott began studying composition and trombone performance at the University of North Texas in August 2003. In Spring 2008, Mark will graduate with two bachelors’ degrees from UNT, where he has studied with Cindy McTee and Jan Kagarice.

While still an undergraduate, Mark has become a student of Anshel Brusilow, conducting the University Symphony and Repertoire Orchestras on a regular basis. Mark was a winner in the 2006 UNT Concerto Competition as a composer, and a finalist as a trombonist in 2007. He has performed with the Wind Symphony, Symphonic Band, Five o’clock Lab Band, Basketball Band, and plays professionally in the Lone Star Wind Orchestra.

As a composer, Mark has heard his works performed by the Richardson Symphony, UNT Symphony Orchestra, Wind Symphony, and by students of euphonium virtuoso Brian Bowman in the United States and abroad. Apart from composing, performing, and conducting, Mark enjoys playing board games and spending time with friends and family.

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Mark Scott was born in 1984 in Houston, Texas and raised in its suburbs. Mark took piano lessons from his elementary school music teacher for several years, but dropped them in favor of playing trombone in junior high school band. He quickly became obsessed with "all things music" and became a student of bass trombonist Carl Muller, staying with him from junior high through the end of high school.

From 1999-2003, Mark attended Klein Forest High School, where he played in the symphonic band, marching band, jazz band, and wrote several arrangements for the marching band -- the beginnings of his "career" as a composer. In August 2003, Mark came to the University of North Texas (Denton, Texas) as a double-major in composition and trombone performance. Since then, he has performed with the Wind Symphony, Symphonic Band, Concert Band, Five o'clock Lab Band, Basketball Band, and in brass quintets, trombone choirs, and quartets.

While at UNT, Mark has received numerous awards for his music, most significantly as a winner in the Concerto Competition for his first orchestral work, Design, in 2006. This resulted in several orchestral performances away from UNT, as well as professional relationships with musicologist Laurie Shulman and conductor Anshel Brusilow.

Among the ensembles to have played Mark's music are the Richardson Symphony, UNT Symphony Orchestra, Repertoire Orchestra, Wind Symphony, Symphonic Band, Marching Band, and Basketball Band. In addition, Mark's music has been performed overseas in Japan (Delights and Dangers) and in Taiwan (Design).

Influential figures in Mark's musical life include his elementary music teacher, Ernestine Jackson, school band directors Michael Keig and Paul Worosello, college band directors Dennis Fisher and Eugene Corporon, composition teacher Cindy McTee, conducting teacher Anshel Brusilow, and trombone teachers Carl Muller and Jan Kagarice. Mark plans to pursue graduate studies in music, in a conservatory either in the U.S. or abroad, beginning Fall 2008.

For a chronological list of works, click here.