Dr. Scott Routenberg: Composer Bio Dr. Scott Routenberg enjoys a versatile and prolific career as an award- winning composer, arranger, and orchestrator. Routenberg studied composition and arranging at the University of Miami Frost School of Music with Grammy-nominated arranger Gary Lindsay, Ron Miller (Pat Metheny's teacher), and Raul Murciano (Miami Sound Machine), and at UNC- Chapel Hill with Bill Fritz (arranger for Stan Kenton). His jazz compositions and arrangements have been performed by the Metropole Orkest, Howard Levy, Christian Howes, Roberta Gambarini, Ernie Watts, Carmen Bradford, the Jeremy Monteiro Big Band, Billy Contreras, the University of Miami Concert Jazz Band, Ball State University Jazz Ensemble 1, the University of Illinois at Chicago Jazz Ensemble, the New York Youth Symphony Jazz Band Classic, and many others.

Routenberg's orchestral works and Pops arrangements have been performed by many noted American symphony orchestras, including the Atlanta Symphony, the Houston Symphony, the Baltimore Symphony, the Indianapolis Symphony, the Phoenix Symphony, the Orlando Philharmonic, the Naples Philharmonic, the Coeur d'Alene Symphony Orchestra, the Tucson Pops Orchestra, and the Muncie Symphony Orchestra. World premieres include Ukraine, the Netherlands, and China. Performance venues include Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), the Lviv Philharmonic Concert Hall, and the Fox Newman Scoring Stage in Los Angeles. Conductors who have premiered Scott's works include Michael Krajewski, Vince Mendoza, David Demand, Douglas Droste, Thomas Sleeper, and Sofia Kraevska. Scott is the 2004 winner of the John Lennon Songwriting Contest's Maxell Song of the Year for his electro-acoustic composition Bandwidth, featured on the album Jazztronicus. Scott won the top prize after receiving the Grand Prize in the Jazz Category and competing with winners from 12 other categories, including over 25,000 entries in total. Judges from the Executive Committee included Bjork, Elton John, Joshua Redman, John Scofield, Carlos Santana, the Spin Doctors, Danny Tenaglia, Robin Gibb, Enrique Iglesias, the Black Eyed Peas, the Foo Figthers, James Brown, and many more.

Other composition awards and honors include the following: ASCAP Plus Award (2005-2012), 2007 ASCAP David Rose Scholarship, 2007 ASCAP Television and Film Scoring Workshop Participant (Los Angeles, with Richard Bellis), 2006 Downbeat Student Award for Best Extended Length Composition, 2006, 2003 & 2002 ASCAP Young Jazz Composer Awards, 2004 Heineken Music Initiative/ASCAP Foundation R&B Grant Program (Miami winner), and 2004 Henry Mancini Institute Composer Participant (Los Angeles, UCLA).

Routenberg’s critically acclaimed, independently produced albums Jazztronicus (2006) and Lots of Pulp (2003) explore cutting edge jazz-influenced electro-acoustic hybrids. Both albums were recorded, edited, mixed and mastered by Scott in his home studio. Scott has also written music for various media, including short films, and demo music for a video game produced by Lucas Arts.

Scott graduate composition degrees include a DMA (Doctor of Musical Arts) in Jazz Composition (2008) and Master of Music in Media Writing and Production (2005), both from the University of Miami Frost School of Music. Dr. Routenberg's doctoral essay, Americana Suite: A Composition for Full Orchestra, Big Band, and Jazz Chamber Ensembles Inspired by American Master Paintings is published by ProQuest Learning Company. Dr. Routenberg is currently Assistant Professor of Music Performance (Jazz Piano) at Ball State University in Indiana, where he teaches applied jazz piano, improvisation, and composition lessons, jazz improvisation, jazz theory, jazz history, jazz arranging, jazz piano lab, and directs jazz combos.