Scott Tucker (conductor)

Scott Arthur Tucker (September 17, 1957 – present) is an American conductor. He is most widely known as the artistic director of The Choral Arts Society of Washington, a position he assumed in 2012, and as the director of choral music at Cornell University from 1995-2012.

Tucker was born on September 17, 1957 in Massachusetts. He started playing the trumpet at the age of nine, His maternal grandfather was an amateur musician and his sister became a professional musician. He received a B.S. degree in psychology from Tufts University and a Bachelor of Music degree in trumpet performance from the New England Conservatory of Music through a five-year, double degree program. He then spent some years as a free lance musician in the Boston area. He subsequently earned a Master of Music degree in choral conducting from the New England Conservatory. Following his graduate degree, Tucker served as assistant choral director at Harvard University for six years under Jameson Marvin, and as choral director at Milton Academy where his duties also included coaching basketball. He also served as a tenor soloist at King's Chapel in Boston under the direction of Daniel Pinkham.

In 1995, he was appointed as assistant professor at Cornell's music department, and as the director of choral music including responsibility for directing the Cornell University Glee Club and the Cornell University Chorus. A review of a Glee Club performance in 2000 by The Washington Post, while not uncritical, found that Tucker had "forged an ensemble of a cappella singers fully in touch with one another." Things improved steadily, and by 2011 a review in the San Francisco Classical Voice described Tucker as "a conductor who knows his medium well," praising "the ease and smoothness of the delivery, the unity in the expressive shaping of phrases, [and] the musical flow," all of which reflected "Tucker's sound musicianship and obvious rapport with his singers."

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