SCOTT WEISS

Scott Weiss is the Director of Bands and Associate Professor of Music at the University of Kansas where he conducts the KU Wind Ensemble and guides all aspects of the band and graduate wind conducting programs. He was previously on the conducting faculties at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, Lamar University and Emory University. The national recipient of the UMI Award for outstanding conducting and teaching, in 2005 Scott Weiss also received the University Merit Award from Lamar University. Ensembles under his direction have performed throughout North America and Asia and at prestigious conferences such as the Midwest International Band and Orchestra Clinics and the Western International Band Conference. A champion of original music for winds—both new and old—he has commissioned and premièred numerous works, and he has presented research on wind band history and literature in both Austria and Luxembourg. Scott Weiss holds an undergraduate degree from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music and both a master’s and a doctoral degree from the University of Illinois.

Role: Conductor
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