Scot Buzza, Artistic Director

Dr. Scot Buzza is a professional choral conductor with several decades of experience in choral music in both university and community environments. Buzza currently serves as professor of musicology, and conductor of the Early Music Collective at the University of Kentucky, as well as director of the KIIS institute in Salzburg, Austria, where he has taught since 2009. Academic experience includes 12 years teaching the graduate sacred music core curriculum at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. As a professor at several regional Universities, he led undergraduate and graduate music courses in music history, aural skills, music theory, and conducting. His background includes a high level of professional musical skills and experience, beginning with more than 18 years as a full-time orchestral musician in Tokyo, Barcelona, and Cincinnati and prizes in international chamber music competitions. With several decades of experience as a professional choral conductor both in the U.S. and Austria, the new CCS Artistic Director brings a high level of proficiency in piano and organ, with special skill in accompanying, harmonizing, sight-reading, and transposing. His professional singing background includes several seasons with the Cincinnati Vocal Arts Ensemble as well as serving as music director for the Our Lady of Divine Providence parish family. Buzza earned a MM and performance diploma in viola from Yale University where he also led the Yale Russian Chorus, and his Ph.D. in eighteenth-century Italian sacred choral music from the University of Kentucky.