Scott Routenberg
Adjunct Faculty
305-237-2282
JazKeez@aol.com

Scott Routenberg is a 28 year old jazz pianist, composer and arranger hailing from Atlanta, Georgia. He has earned a BA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in Music and Communications (2001), a Master of Music degree (MM) from the University of Miami in Jazz Piano Performance (2003), and a second MM from the University of Miami in Media Writing and Production (2005).

Scott is currently a second year doctoral student studying Jazz Composition (DMA) at the University of Miami at Coral Gables. He also teaches Jazz and Popular Music History at Miami-Dade College (Kendall Campus), where he is an adjunct faculty member.

February 20-25 2007, the Naples Philharmonic (with concertmaster and soloist Glenn Basham and conductor Michael Krajewski) will perform the first movement of Scott's newly commissioned Concerto for Jazz Violin and Orchestra.

In July of 2005, Scott won the John Lennon Songwriting Contest's Maxell Song of the Year for his electro-acoustic composition Bandwidth.. Scott won the top prize after receiving the Grand Prize in the Jazz Category and competing with winners from 12 other categories, including over 25,000 entries in total. Judges from the Executive Committee included: Bjork, Elton John, Joshua Redman, John Scofield, Carlos Santana, the Spin Doctors, Danny Tenaglia, Robin Gibb, Enrique Iglesias, the Black Eyed Peas, the Foo Fighters, James Brown, and many more.

Other recent awards and honors include:

• Winner of the 2006 Downbeat Student Award for Best Extended Length Composition
• Winner, 2006 ASCAP Young Jazz Composer Awards (and 2002, 2003)
• ASCAP Plus Award recipient (Jazz, 2006)
• Winner, The ASCAP Foundation/Heineken R&B Songwriters Initiative (Miami, 2004)
• Composer Participant in the Henry Mancini Institute (Los Angeles, summer 2004)

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