Scott Terrell

After a two-year search that drew from 278 applications and included ten candidates in the final audition process, the Lexington Philharmonic named Scott Terrell as its new Music Director & Conductor in April 2009. He led the orchestra in its annual Fourth of July concert in Gratz Park, and debuted on the Singletary Center stage in September 2009, conducting a program featuring world-renowned percussionist, Dame Evelyn Glennie. Scott Terrell has planned the 2010-11 season featuring collaborations with local performing groups and international soloists. He makes numerous appearances throughout the community and has exciting ideas for the Lexington Philharmonic's artistic future!

Terrell has led performances with many prestigious international organizations including Opera Colorado, Minnesota Opera, Aspen Music Festival, Minnesota Orchestra, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Hong Kong Sinfonietta, Milwaukee Symphony, Spoleto Festival, Colorado Symphony, Naples Philharmonic, Eugene Symphony, Richmond Symphony, South Dakota Symphony, Sun River Music Festival, Kalamazoo Symphony, Piccolo Spoleto Festival, Wheeling Symphony, Greater Boston Youth Symphony, Western New York Chamber Orchestra, Amarillo Symphony and the Musical Offering of San Antonio. Recent debuts include the Rochester Philharmonic, Bloomington Camerata Orchestra and El Paso Opera. In the 2009-2010 season, he will debut with the Portland and Jacksonville Symphonies.

In 2003, Terrell made his highly successful European debut with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, leading a two-week Bernstein festival including orchestral performances as well as vocal recitals where he served as both pianist and host. Leading an extremely talented international cast, Terrell conducted selections from On the Town and West Side Story, as well as concert performances of Candide. Further demonstrating his mastery of operatic repertoire, Terrell debuted with Opera Colorado in 2002, leading an acclaimed production of Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel. In 2006, he received international rave reviews when he returned to Opera Colorado to lead Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio. He has led numerous programs at the Charleston, SC based Spoleto and Piccolo Spoleto Festivals including: Stravinsky's Rite of Spring with the Charleston Ballet, Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde, Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel and Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors. In addition, he led the Minnesota Opera's production of Le Nozze di Figaro in 2001.

From 2005-2009, Terrell served as Resident Conductor of the Charleston Symphony Orchestra where he was artistic leader and conductor of the Backstage Pass Series, Charleston Pops Series, and Out of the Box concerts. Throughout his tenure, he led hundreds of programs including Masterworks, Backstage Pass, and Charleston Pops, as well as many outreach and regional contracted concerts. In 2006, Terrell was appointed to the position of Director of Education Programs for the Charleston Symphony Orchestra. In this position, he doubled the number and scope of the CSO's educational offerings, adding neighborhood Kinder Konzerts, Adopt-a-School residencies and High School Curriculum Connections programs to the current In-School Ensemble and Young People's Concerts programming. Under his direction, the orchestra further expanded its educational offerings by adding a new Family Concert series.

While Assistant Conductor of Minnesota Orchestra from 1998-2003, Scott Terrell conducted hundreds of the Minnesota Orchestra's performances including Casual Classics, Pops, Family Concerts, Young People's Concerts, Composer's Institute, and Sommerfest Concerts. Mr. Terrell made his subscription performance debut in March 2002 when filling in last minute for ailing conductor, Hans Vonk. He conducted the orchestra's productions of Bernstein's Candide, and Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors.

In the summer of 2000, Terrell was chosen as a fellowship conductor for the inaugural season of the American Academy of Conducting at the Aspen Music Festival under Music Director, David Zinman. At the conclusion of that summer, he was awarded the Aspen Conducting Prize, an honor only given by Mr. Zinman for exemplary musicianship and promise.