Scott Winship recently became the Associate Director and Youth Jam Coordinator for Chicago’s Rock For Kids, a non-profit organization dedicated to helping Chicago’s homeless children through Holiday relief programs and Youth Jam, a free music education program for underprivileged children. Before moving to Chicago, he served as the Development Assistant for the American Music Center in New York. An active composer, Mr. Winship continues to write music for various ensembles across the country with upcoming performances scheduled to take place in Washington, D.C., Chicago, and Tucson, AZ.

Mr. Winship received his Master of Music in Composition degree from Bowling Green State University and a Bachelor’s of Music Education from Central Michigan University. His primary teachers have included Marilyn Shrude, Jeffrey Mumford, Phillip Grange, Mikel Kuehn, and David Gillingham. Mr. Winship has participated in master-classes with such notable composers as George Crumb, Olly Wilson, Bernard Rands, James Dashow, William O. Smith, Leslie Bassett, and David Burge. He was the 1994 winner of the James Madison University Flute Choir Composition Competition and has held residencies at the Atlantic Center for the Arts (studies with Leslie Bassett), the May in Miami Music Festival, and the Brevard Music Festival (studies with Claude Baker and Henry Mollicone). Mr. Winship’s music has been performed by numerous ensembles including the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, the Massachusetts High School Flute Choir, the Brevard Repertory Orchestra, and those at James Madison University, Central Michigan University, the University of Nebraska, and the University of Exeter in England.

listen to some of his music:

©Scott Winship 2002

Love Songs ~

~1st movement: To be Sung on the Water ~2nd movement: A Spring Night

My Goodness ~

~saxaphone quartet: My Goodness

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Love Songs and My Goodness copryrighted Scott Winship 2002