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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

Selected Presentations & Appearances


Ensemble of Found Metals - SuperCollider · 2017 Invited Talk MoogFest, Carolina Theater, Durham, NC
Instrumental Music, Computation, and Text - Cadences for Sextet - Music Department Colloquium Series · 2016 Invited Talk Duke University,
Le Bal Miro · 2015 Invited Talk Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University,
Fireflies and Found Objects - Conversations in Digital Humanities · 2015 Invited Talk Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke University,
Other Voices - String Quintet - Music Department Colloquium Series · 2013 Invited Talk Duke University,
Ensemble of Found Metals - SuperCollider · 2017 Invited Talk MoogFest, Carolina Theater, Durham, NC
Instrumental Music, Computation, and Text - Cadences for Sextet - Music Department Colloquium Series · 2016 Invited Talk Duke University,
Le Bal Miro · 2015 Invited Talk Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University,
Fireflies and Found Objects - Conversations in Digital Humanities · 2015 Invited Talk Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke University,
Other Voices - String Quintet - Music Department Colloquium Series · 2013 Invited Talk Duke University,
Teaching Composition - Compositional Praxis Symposium · February 13, 2012 Lecture Stanford University
SoundSpace - Interactive Music Media - Visualization Friday Forum · 2006 Invited Talk Duke University,
Recent Compositions · 2005 Invited Talk University of Arizona,
Nasuh - for Soprano and String Quartet · 2004 Invited Talk Franklin Humanities Center,
Nasuh - for Soprano and String Quartet · 2004 Invited Talk Stanford University,
Recent Compositions · 2003 Invited Talk Yale School of Music,
Recent Compositions · 2003 Invited Talk University of South Carolina School of Music,
Recent Compositions · 2002 Invited Talk University of Michigan School of Music,
What Is Information? - ISIS Symposium · 2002 Invited Talk Duke University,
Recent Compositions · 2001 Invited Talk Lawrence University Conservatory of Music,
Recent Compositions · 2000 Invited Talk University of Michigan School of Music,
In the Middle of the Road - Music Department Colloquium Series · 2000 Invited Talk Duke University,
Recent Compositions · 2000 Invited Talk North Carolina School of the Arts,
Recent Compositions · 1997 Invited Talk University of South Carolina School of Music,
A Fire's Bright Song · 1997 Invited Talk Williams College Music Department,
Recent Compositions · 1996 Invited Talk University of Virginia Music Department,
Recent Compositions · 1995 Invited Talk Princeton University Music Department,
Recent Compositions · 1994 Invited Talk Yale School of Music,
Mid the Steep Sky's Commotion · 1993 Invited Talk Norfolk Chamber Music Festival,
Recent Compositions · 1990 Invited Talk Princeton University Music Department,

Outreach & Engaged Scholarship


Bass Connections Faculty Team Member - Music for Social Change: Research in Practice with Kidznotes and El Sistema USA · 2018 - 2019 Projects & Field Work flag North Carolina

Primary Theme: Education & Human Development

El Sistema is an evidence-based system of music education for social change. Founded in Venezuela in 1975, El Sistema and its worldwide replications create an environment of opportunity through the collective practice of orchestral playing and choral singing as a model for personal, social, academic and musical development. Through a focus on low-income youth, these programs serve a long-term agenda to combat systemic and intergenerational poverty. This movement is present in the U.S. and locally within the Research Triangle of North Carolina. El Sistema USA (ESUSA) has 160 nonprofit members and affiliates. Kidznotes, an El Sistema-inspired program launched in 2010 in East Durham, serves 500 students annually in grades K-10 throughout Durham and Southeast Raleigh.

Bass Connections Faculty Team Member - El Sistema USA and Duke: Advancing the Power of Music for Human Development · August 2017 - May 2018 Projects & Field Work flag United States of America

Service to the Profession


External Evaluator - Tenure/Promotion Review · 2016 Other MIT,
External Evaluator - Tenure/Promotion Review · 2016 Other Stanford University,
Judge - ACC Band Directors Association Composition Contest · 2015 Other
External Evaluator - Tenure/Promotion Review · 2015 Other Stanford University,
External Evaluator - Tenure/Promotion Review · 2014 Other Stanford University,
External Evaluator - Tenure/Promotion Review · 2016 Other MIT,
External Evaluator - Tenure/Promotion Review · 2016 Other Stanford University,
Judge - ACC Band Directors Association Composition Contest · 2015 Other
External Evaluator - Tenure/Promotion Review · 2015 Other Stanford University,
External Evaluator - Tenure/Promotion Review · 2014 Other Stanford University,
External Evaluator - Tenure/Promotion Review · 2013 Other University of Virigina
External Evaluator - Reappointment Review · 2011 Other Stanford University,
External Evaluator - Tenure/Promotion Review · 2011 Other University of Virigina
External Evaluator - Tenure/Promotion Review · 2011 Other Stanford University
External Evaluator - Tenure/Promotion Review · 2011 Other University of Virigina
External Evaluator - Tenure/Promotion Review · 2011 Other Moorer School of Music (University of Houston)
External Reviewer - Music Department Review · 2010 Consulting University of Virginia,
UCSD Music Graduate Program Review Committee · May 2009 Other
External Evaluator - Tenure/Promotion Review · 2009 Other MIT
External Evaluator - Tenure/Promotion Review · 2009 Other University of Michigan School of Music
External Evaluator - Tenure/Promotion Review · 2009 Other UNC Greensboro,
External Evaluator - Tenure/Promotion Review · 2007 Other Princeton University,
External Reviewer - Department Review · 2007 Other Stevens Institute of Technology,
External Evaluator - Tenure/Promotion Review · 2007 Other Stanford University,
Grant Reviewer · 2005 Committee Service National Endowment for the Arts,
External Evaluator - Tenure/Promotion Review · 2003 Other Stanford University,
Judge - North Carolina Music Teachers Association Composition Competition Judge · 2002 Other
Grant Reviewer - Chamber Music America · 1999 Committee Service
Judge - National Association of Music Teachers Composition Competition · 1999 Other
Grant Reviewer - Chamber Music America · 1998 Committee Service
Grant Reviewer - Aaron Copland Foundation Recording Grant · 1998 Committee Service
External Evaluator - Tenure/Promotion Review · 1998 Other University of Virginia,
External Evaluator - Tenure/Promotion Review · 1996 Other University of California, San Diego,