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Scott A. Lindroth

Professor of Music
Music
Box 90665, Durham, NC 27708-0665
Duke University Department of Music, Box 90665, Durham, NC 27708-0665

Overview


I am a composer of instrumental and vocal music.  My most recent works are T120, a piano trio composed for the Horszowski Trio (2021) and a Quintet for Soprano Saxophone and String Quartet (2019).  My current project is a quartet for flute and three strings, commissioned by the Electric Earth Concert Series. 

My teaching centers on technical aspects of music, including classes on music theory, composition, and transcription.  I also co-teach a course called "Music and the Brain" with Tobias Overath, a colleague in Psychology and Neuroscience.  This class explores the physiology and psychology of hearing and music cognition, a study that has enabled me to reconsider ideas I know well from an entirely different perspective, with the result that "old" ideas have become "new" again.   More marginal interests include some aspects of music technology: live sampling and signal processing, sonification, and computer-assisted composition.  

Aside from these professional interests, I enjoy working with machine tools as well as motorcycling on back roads in North Carolina.  

Current Duke Appointments & Affiliations


Professor of Music · 2008 - Present Music, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Bass Fellow · 2007 - Present Music, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences

Recent News Items


Published March 19, 2023
Learning New Subjects During Spring Breakthrough 2023
Published October 6, 2021
The Exhilaration of High Speed, Captured in Music
Published May 21, 2020
Duke's Chief Arts Advocate Looks Back at 13 Years of Progress

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Recent Scholarly Works


T120

Artistic composition · May 2021 Piano trio for the Horszowski Trio; premiered Oct. 9, 2021 at Duke University ... Cite

Quintet for Soprano Saxophone and String Quartet

Artistic composition · January 2019 for 2 violins, viola, cello, and soprano saxophone; premiered March 30, 2019 at Duke University ... Cite

Ensemble of Found Metals

Digital art · 2017 Home-made percussion instruments with real time signal processing and algorithmic control; presented at Moogfest, May 2017, Durham, NC ... Link to item Cite
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Recent Grants


MDBF Arts Incubator

Institutional SupportPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Mary Duke Biddle Foundation · 2018 - 2023

Visiting Artist Residency

Institutional SupportPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Winifred Johnson Clive Foundation · 2016 - 2017

Visting Artists

Institutional SupportPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Winifred Johnson Clive Foundation · 2014 - 2015

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Education


Yale University · 1991 D.M.A.
Yale University · 1989 M.A.
Eastman School of Music · 1980 B.M.