Scott Lee

Composer Scott Lee writes concert music infused with the visceral sounds of popular music. From hiphop chamber grooves to EDM-inspired orchestral dances, Lee's music features shifting rhythms and striking melodies that speak to diverse listeners.

Lee has worked with musicians across genres, from leading orchestras and chamber groups such as the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Winston-Salem Symphony members, the Da Capo Chamber Players, yMusic, the Moravian Philharmonic, and the Peabody Symphony Orchestra to multi-platinum pop artist Ben Folds. He has received commissions from loadbang, the Baltimore Classical Guitar Society, the Occasional Symphony, and the American Craft Council.

Notable awards include a 2015 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award, the grand prize in the 2015 PARMA Student Composer Competition, winner of Chatterbird’s 2015 Call for Scores, and the Gustav Klemm Award in Composition from the Peabody Institute. Lee was also a composition fellow at the 2015 Bowdoin International Music Festival, where he studied with Derek Bermel.

Lee is currently a James B. Duke Fellow at Duke University where he is pursuing his PhD in Composition, mentored by Scott Lindroth and Steve Jaffe. He earned the Master of Music degree at the Peabody institute, where he was the recipient of the Philip D. Glass Endowed Scholarship in Composition and studied with Michael Hersch. He received his Bachelor of Music degree from the Blair School of Music at Vanderbilt University in 2011, where he studied with Michael Rose, Michael Slayton, Stan Link, and Michael Kurek.