Scott Lawton (conductor)
Scott Lawton ( born July 4, 1960 in New Castle, Pennsylvania) is an American conductor and pianist.
Life
Scott Lawton studied at Oberlin College and the College - Conservatory of Music Cincinnati. After working as a coach in Bielefeld and Kapellmeister at the Saarland State Theatre in 1999 he was chief conductor at the German Film Orchestra Babelsberg. Since 2005 he has been conductor of the State Nordrhein - Westfalen. From 2004 to 2009 he was music director at the Gandersheimer Domfestspielen. He teaches music interpretation at the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen.
As a guest conductor he has appeared with many orchestras, including the Cologne Radio Orchestra, the Cologne Gürzenich Orchestra, the Sinfonieorchester Wuppertal, the Saarland State Orchestra, the Meiningen Court Orchestra, the Brandenburg State Orchestra and the Philharmonic Orchestra of the city of Ulm.
Scott Lawton looked symphonic crossover projects with the Scorpions, Udo Lindenberg, carat, The World Quintet, Omara Portuondo and Mousse T. with the Buena Vista Social Club; Concerts or recordings with Tatiana Lisnic, Johannes Heesters, Joja Wendt, Otto Waalkes, Frank Popp Ensemble, Soulounge, Motion Trio, Mísia, Betin Güneş, Franck Tortiller, Louie Austen, Jon Lord and Joy Dena Lane, he also conducts.
Silent films of Charlie Chaplin, Fritz Lang, Alfred Hitchcock and Laurel and Hardy, he accompanied. As a conductor, he is awarded annually in the José Carreras benefit concert in Leipzig, and has conducted many concerts since 2000 at the Classic Open Air am Gendarmenmarkt in Berlin. In 2005, he also conducted at the opening concert of the Vienna Festival. 2007, 2008 and 2010, he led the final concert of the Music Festival Potsdam Sanssouci in front of the illuminated backdrop of the New Palace.
Besides his work as a conductor, he composed for the musical theater in 2005 "Mozart in Manhattan ," an opera thriller about Lorenzo da Ponte's life in New York and 2007 " If doctors love", a parody of the doctor novel genre. Both works were shown at the Gandersheimer Domfestspielen first time.