Connecticut native Scott Perkins is a composer of vocal music, scholar, and educator. He is Associate Professor of Music at California State University, Sacramento, where he is Head of Music Theory and Composition. For five years, Scott served as co-director of Sacramento State’s Festival of New American Music (FeNAM), the nation’s longest-running, free new music festival. He has also taught at DePauw University, Central Connecticut State University, Nazareth College, and the Interlochen Summer Arts Academy.

Scott earned his PhD in Composition with minors in music theory and music history at the Eastman School of Music, where his primary teacher was Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon. He holds an MA in Music Theory and an MA in Music Theory Pedagogy from Eastman, and he has a bachelor’s degree, summa cum laude, in music theory and composition with a sub-concentration in vocal performance from Boston University. A lifelong learner, he studies Hindustani music with Saili Oak, the acclaimed North Indian classical vocalist of the Jaipur-Atrauli Gharana, and Arabic music with the international prize-winning qanun virtuoso and vocalist Ali Paris.