Scott McKenzie
Biography
Scott McKenzie (b. 11 December 1971, Monterey, Calif.) is a composer, arranger, and conductor currently serving as a band officer in the United States Army.
He holds a Bachelor of Arts from Virginia Tech and a Master of Music degree in composition from George Mason University, where he was a student of Dr. Glenn Smith and Mark Camphouse. He previously studied music education and conducting at Old Dominion University and the Peabody Conservatory. Prior to enlisting in the Army, he taught band, chorus, and general music at the middle school level for four years.
Mr. McKenzie’s compositions and arrangements have been performed on four continents by ensembles from beginning first-year players to the finest musicians in the world, from elementary cafetoriums to Carnegie Hall, from a cappella voices to full symphonic band. His brass choir piece Fanfare for Enduring Freedom was a 2007 winner of the Dallas Wind Symphony’s ‘Call for Fanfares,’ and most recently, A Summer Breeze for concert band was named winner of the 2012 Columbia Summer Winds Outdoor Composition Contest.
Works for Winds
Adaptable Music
- Jupiter Fanfare (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- Pursuit (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
All Wind Works
- Aria and Toccata (2015/)
- An Autumn Sunset (2018)
- Black Tie Blu-Bop (2006)
- Groovy Loops (2013)
- Jaguar Dance
- Iron Majors (2015)
- Jupiter Fanfare (2020)
- Jupiter Fanfare (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- Keynote Address (2016/2022)
- Kings March, The
- Mozart's Sandbox
- Passacaglia for Band
- Pursuit (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- Some Assembly Required (2021)
- Sound the Trumpets (2010)
- A Summer Breeze (2012)
- Symphonic Palindrome