Dr. Scott McGlasson is the Director of Orchestras at Sierra Vista High School in Las Vegas, Nevada, the principal conductor of the Las Vegas Youth Orchestra Sinfonia ensemble, and a graduate of The University of Nevada Las Vegas holding a Doctor of Musical Arts Degree with a concentration in Wind Conducting. He also holds a Master of Arts degree in Secondary Education from Chapman University and a Bachelor of Music degree in Composition from California State University Stanislaus. His teachers have included Thomas G. Leslie, Anthony LaBounty, Zane Douglass, and Brian Asher Alhadeff.
Scott regularly guest performs with the Cello Society of Southern Utah and has played with the Santa Maria Philharmonic, the Lompoc Pops Orchestra and was the assistant conductor for the San Luis Obispo Grand Opera orchestra.
Scott is an accomplished composer who has had works premiered at such events as the 2017 Handbell Musicians of America National Conference in Anaheim, California and was a featured composer for From The Top Music Publishing at the 2024 HMA National Conference in Hartford, Connecticut. In 2023 his piece Brother Green was selected as a finalist in the Midwest Clinic new school band composition contest.
Scott has been a music educator in California and Nevada for eight years where he has taught middle and high school band, orchestra, and choir; most notably at Lois and Jerry Tarkanian Middle School in Las Vegas, NV, and Arroyo Grande High School in Arroyo Grande, CA. Scott is a published composer with the Lorenz Corporation and From The Top Music. He is a member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Music Fraternity. The Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, and the Nevada Chapter of the American String Teacher Association of America.
