A. Scott Wood is the artistic and executive director of Amadeus Concerts and the conductor of the Amadeus Orchestra. Mr. Wood is also artistic director of the Arlington Philharmonic, the Washington Conservatory Orchestra, the Montgomery Symphony Orchestra, and the National Cathedral School and St. Albans School Orchestra. He has guest-conducted the Orchestra Society of Philadelphia, the Brevard (North Carolina) Philharmonic, the Rutgers Sinfonia, and the Washington Symphonic Brass, which he prepared for a Kennedy Center concert conducted by Leonard Slatkin. In December 2008 he appeared as guest conductor for the Kennedy Center’s popular Messiah Sing-Along.
Born into a military family, Mr. Wood traveled extensively as a young man and learned the trumpet in a German Musikverein. While attending the University of Illinois, he went to London as a finalist in the International Trumpet Guild Solo Competition. Later, he was a fellow at the International Conductor’s Workshop in the Czech Republic and also received grants for study in Italy.
In recent years, Mr. Wood conducted the Fairfax Symphony Orchestra at the Shenandoah Valley Music Festival (the FSO gave him the Serage Award for Music Education), was conductor-in-residence of the American University Orchestra, and conducted productions at Eldbrooke Opera, The Washington Savoyards, and Signature Theatre. Mr. Wood has worked with young musicians as well, including the American Youth Symphony Orchestra and the Shenandoah Valley, Potomac Valley, Cheapeake, Prince William, and D.C. Youth Orchestras. He has given lectures at the Borders College of Classical Knowledge, the Concurso di Canto Lirico in Peru, and the Strathmore Performing Arts Center.