Biography
Scott Millichamp is currently Co-Principal Horn of the West Texas Symphony, hornist of the WTS Lone Star Brass, Instructor of Horn and Composition at University of Texas Permian Basin, Co-Music Director at the Unitarian-Universalist Church of Midland, Adjunct Instructor of Horn at Odessa College, Fourth Horn of Abilene Philharmonic, and Principal Horn of the Missouri Symphony Hot Summer Nights music festival. From 2013 to 2020 he was additionally the instructor of music theory, ear training and brass methods and director of the brass ensemble at UTPB.
Prior to moving to Texas, Scott served for two years as Fourth Horn of the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra. He has also served as acting Second Horn of the Lyrique en Mer opera festival on France’s Belle Ile en Mer and Second Horn of Opera in the Ozarks in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. Scott appeared as concerto soloist with orchestra at the 1996 Michigan Youth Arts Festival and was a guest artist with the Birmingham-Bloomfield Symphony Orchestra in 2000.
A Bloomington Public Radio review of the Indiana University Opera Theatre’s 2004 production of Rossini’s Il Turco in Italia described Scott’s horn playing as “eloquent,” and the May 2007 issue of the Hawai’i Horn Call regarded Scott’s April 2007 performance of Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante in Honolulu’s Neil Blaisdell Center as “fantastic.” Scott was invited to the 2009 International Horn Symposium as a Contributing Artist and the 2012 and 2013 Mid-South Horn Workshops as a Regional Artist. In 2015 he performed Richard Strauss’s 1st Horn Concerto with the Midland-Odessa Symphony under the direction of Gary Lewis.
A native of Detroit, Scott spent six years as a horn performance major at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music, from which he earned his Bachelor and Master of Music degrees in addition to a Performance Diploma.
Prior to attending IU, Scott spent two years as a horn major at Interlochen Arts Academy, from which he graduated with a high school diploma and a Fine Arts Award in Horn, and six summers at Interlochen Arts Camp.
His primary horn teachers included Myron Bloom, Douglas Campbell, Vince DeRosa, Michael Hatfield, Arlene James, Julie Schleif, and Eugene Wade; he also studied the natural horn with Randall Faust and Richard Seraphinoff. Scott has studied composition with Garrett Byrnes, David Cutler, Derek Johnson, Daniel Kessner, Zae Munn, Thomas Osborne, Sven-David Sandström, Donald Reid Womack, and Byron Yasui.
From 2005 to 2007 Scott served as a Graduate Teaching Assistant in Composition at the University of Hawai’i in Manoa, a substitute hornist with the Honolulu Symphony Orchestra, pianist for Honolulu Waldorf Lower School Eurythmics Classes, and choir accompanist for First Unitarian Universalist Church of Honolulu.
Scott also enjoys photography, and took the photos used in this site (aside from those of him).