BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:VEVENT UID:226@tacomaago.org DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190323T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190323T120000 DTSTAMP:20190321T021948Z URL:https://tacomaago.org/events/masterclass-with-kraig-scott/ SUMMARY:Masterclass with Kraig Scott DESCRIPTION:The board is delighted to sponsor a class with Kraig Scott of W alla Walla University\, a renowned performer and pedagogue.\nSchedule for Masterclass\n10:00-10:10 Welcome &\; announcements\n10:10-10:30 Perform er #1\n10:30-10:35 Q &\; A\n10:35-10:55 Performer #2\n10:55-11:00 Q &am p\; A\n11:00-11:25 Performer #3\n11:25-11:30 Q &\; A\n11:30-12:00 Perfo rmance/remarks by Mr. Scott\nKraig Scott Biography\nBorn: 1961 - Surrey\, a suburb of Vancouver\, British Columbia\, Canada\n\nThe Canadian organist \, harpsichordist\, musicologist\, and choral conductor\, Kraig Stuart Mic hael Scott\, grew up in British Columbia\, the youngest of three children of dentist Kenneth Lee\, a Canadian\, and Myrna Mae Scott\, a USAs citizen . Music was an important part of life in their home\, the family often wak ing to classical recordings chosen by Myrna\, a singer in their church and member of the Handel Society chorus. While Kraig's sister\, Karen\, and b rother\, Kenny\, started piano lessons at age 6\, he started at age 4\, wh en he began playing by ear the music his older siblings were practicing. T his led to lessons with their same teacher\, Fern Treleaven of Surrey\, an d later with Audrey Mallinson in New Westminster. After attending orchestr a concerts where some of the older children from church were playing\, Kra ig begged his parents to let him start violin. He studied both violin and piano seriously for the next 12 years until he graduated from high school and entered college. His teenage music study was multi-faceted and enabled him to develop as both a performer and eventually a music scholar:\n\nKra ig Scott earned an Associate Diploma in Piano\, ARCT\, from the Royal Cons ervatory of Toronto\, Canada at age 16. He also had started organ lessons at age 11 with a local teacher and began playing in the New Westminster Se venth-day Adventist church. His sister’s matriculation at Walla Walla Co llege offered his first experience with a large pipe organ. He was thirtee n when he met Melvin West\, then professor of organ at Walla Walla College (WWC): Upon enrolling at WWC as a freshman\, he studied piano with Leonar d Richter and organ with Lanny Collins for three years and\, during his se nior year\, with John Hamilton at the University of Oregon. His background in academic music study allowed him to move directly into advanced theory courses. At graduation from Walla Walla College\, now University\, in 198 4 with a Bachelor of Music degree in Music Performance\, he was offered an invitation to return to teach upon completion of an advanced degree. He a nd his bride\, Julie Woods\, chose to settle in Eugene Oregon\, where they both earned master’s degrees at the University of Oregon (UA)\, his ear ly keyboard performance\; he received merit scholarships for his work in h arpsichord and organ with John Hamilton. He was also selected to be one of nine performers in a series of concerts dedicated to Hamilton when he ret ired at the end of his thirty-year career at UO.\n\nAfter teaching at WWC for four years\, Kraig Scott took a three-year study leave to attend Eastm an School of Music\, where he completed both an Master of Arts degree in M usicology and a D.M.A. in Organ Performance and Literature in 1993. At Eas tman he received half-tuition merit scholarships from the organ and musico logy departments and was the 1992 Jerald C. Graue Fellow in musicology\, a n annual Eastman award given for outstanding work in musicological researc h. He was also supported by WWC with the understanding that he would retur n to teach organ and music history. At Eastman his performance teachers in cluded David Craighead\, Russell Saunders\, and David Higgs (organ) and Ar thur Haas of New York City (harpsichord). As a result of his degree recita ls he was nominated for and received the coveted Performer’s Certificate . He recently talked about his time at Eastman and the stimulation and cha llenge it provided:\n\nKraig Scott has given numerous recitals on organ an d harpsichord throughout North America\, Europe\, and the Far East in elev en states and ten countries\, in venues such as Dunblane Cathedral (Scotla nd)\, Kirkpatrick Chapel (Rutgers University)\, Central Lutheran Church (E ugene)\, St. Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral (Seattle)\, Sejong Cultural Cent er (South Korea)\, Gaoloumen Christian Church (Nanjing\, China)\, and the universities of Oregon\, Washington\, Alberta\, and Calgary\, among many o thers. He is an acclaimed performer of Baroque music and has been featured in the annual Bach recital on the Flentrop organ of St. Mark’s Cathedra l in Seattle and has given the opening recital of the Northwest Bach Festi val in Spokane\, Washington.\n\nA sensitive accompanist\, Kraig Scott ofte n collaborates with other musicians as organist\, pianist\, and harpsichor dist. His skill at realizing figured bass keeps him busy performing baroqu e music with orchestras and soloists such as vocalist James Brown\, cellis t Marc Vanscheeuwijck\, and harpsichordist Arthur Haas. He frequently perf orms with baroque flautist Janet See\, including a collaboration with gamb ist Margriet Tindemans for the 2011 American Handel Festival. He has twice served as guest artist for the Idaho State University Baroque Festival\, where he played continuo and also performed solo recitals.\n\nKraig Scott is professor of music at Walla Walla University (WWU). He has taught there since 1986 and directed the choral program since 2009. He also serves as minister of music and organist for the WWU Church and was music director a t St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Walla Walla for eighteen years. As a memb er of the WWU music faculty Kraig Scott's responsibilities include conduct ing the University choirs\, teaching organ and harpsichord\, serving as ch urch organist\, and overseeing all music at the University Church. Since a ssuming direction of the University choral ensembles in 2009 he and the sm all choir\, I Cantori\, have toured throughout the Northwest and to San Fr ancisco\, Honolulu\, and southern California. As a guest conductor his app earances include leading the festival chorus of Central Lutheran Church (E ugene\, Oregon)\, and conducting the 500-voice choir of the Seventh-day Ad ventist International Choral Congress in Bucha\, Ukraine. In addition to h is work at WWU he serves as adjunct instructor at Whitman College.\n\nKrai g Scott has presented lectures and master classes at many institutions\, i ncluding Eastman School of Music\, Rutgers University\, Pacific Lutheran U niversity\, University of Alberta\, University of Oregon\, University of C algary\, and Westminster Choir College\, and at many chapters of the Ameri can Guild of Organists. His piano\, organ\, and harpsichord students have won numerous competitions and have appeared on NPR’s national program “From the Top.” They have been accepted with full scholarships to grad uate programs such as the Juilliard School of Music\, Yale Institute of Sa cred Music\, Eastman\, and the Cleveland Institute.\n\nKraig Scott's inter est in conducting choirs began in 1985 during his time at the University o f Oregon. His first choir at United Lutheran Church in Eugene\, Oregon\, l ed eventually to 18 years as director of music at St. Paul’s Episcopal C hurch in Walla Walla. In the summer of 2006\, he started graduate work in choral studies at Michigan State University and three years later was aske d to lead the choirs of Walla Walla University. Under his direction since 2009\, the WWU select choir\, I Cantori\, has performed throughout the Nor thwest\, in Oakland and Southern California\, and Hawaii. In November 2013 \, they released their first recording\, Eternity Alone.\n\nKraig Scott re ceived the Zapara Excellence in Teaching Award in 1989 and gave the Distin guished Faculty Lecture at WWU in 2002. In 2013 he was a featured presente r at the Walla Walla Adventist Forum on campus\, where he spoke on “How Music Has Kept My Attention!”\n\nHis wife\, Julie\, who runs a leadershi p consultancy\, completed her M.B.A. at the University of Rochester and a Ph.D. at the University of Washington. Together they regularly host studen ts\, musical ensembles\, and out-of-town musical guests in their home\, pl an receptions at performance venues\, and share the gift of music with a w ide community. They have two sons\, Alexander\, a 2013 WWU history graduat e now studying law at Gonzaga University in Spokane\, and Andrew\, class o f 2014 at the United States Military Academy – West Point\, majoring in history and French. 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