Tristan Scott is an American composer, performer, and educator based in Dallas, Texas whose musical ethos liberates the performer from the stage, chair, and stand. As a composer and arranger, Scott fuses his knowledge of avant-garde techniques and to create a theatrical style that gives his audience a unique artistic experience.
Scott seeks to demystify the avant-garde and provide audiences insight into the misunderstood complexity and beauty that goes unseen in contemporary experimental music. He also aspires to recharacterize the euphonium as not only an instrument of lyrical and techincal capacity, but also one capable of a beastly "other" sound. He uses his background in experimental music to prepare students for a world where once experimental techniques are now seeping into mainstream repetoire.
Scott holds two Bachelor's Degrees in Euphonium Performance and Composition from Baylor University, and has studied with Dr. Kent Eshelman, Dr. Scott McAllister, and Dr. Ben Johansen.
A lecture on free improvisation, its pedagogical applications for developing musicality and technique, and its role in pushing the euphonium (and tuba) forwards as improvisation becomes increasingly prevalent in contemporary repetoire broadly. This will include methods for developing a performance, mindset exercises, and a live group improvisation using found "sculptural scores". Multiple styles of free improvisation will be discussed including (a)tonal and effect-based, with the purpose of tapping into a player's creative impulses and pattern recognition. This presentation is intended for intermediate to advanced players, but can be understood by players of all ability levels.
