Scott Hosfeld(I)
- Music Department
- Producer
- Actor
Acclaimed Conductor and Music Director of the award-winning Malibu
Coast Chamber Orchestra (MCCO), and the Director and Conductor of the
Malibu Coast Silent Film Orchestra, Scott Hosfeld is a favorite among
his professional colleagues and students. Hosfeld has been principal
conductor of the Icicle Creek Chamber Orchestra, the Kairos Festival
Orchestra, the Dorian Festival Orchestras, the Shenandoah Valley Bach
Festival Orchestras, the Icicle Symphony Orchestra, the Central
Washington University Chamber Orchestra and the Eastern Sierra Symphony
Chamber Orchestra. Hosfeld has led concerti for premiere international
concert soloists Nathaniel Rosen, Camilla Wicks, Andrew Shulman, Paul
Coletti, Delores Stevens, Steven Doane, Darol Anger, David Perry, Peter
Longworth, Hal Ott, Eric Kutz, Miko Kominami, Denise Dillenbeck,
Spencer Martin, John Michel, Carrie Rehkopf and Mike Marshall.
As a Conducting Fellow of the esteemed conductor of the New York City Ballet, George Manahan; and a viola and chamber music protégé of the late great concert artist, composer and pedagogue, Lillian Fuchs, Mr. Hosfeld earned his BM and MM from New York City's Manhattan School of Music with the Highest Honors. Grand Prize Winner of Young Artists International, Hosfeld made his Carnegie Recital Hall Debut in 1980 as violist and founder of the Riverside String Quartet, and won a coveted Aspen Music Festival Fellowship. With the Val Coeur String Quartet, Mr. Hosfeld has toured Russia, Western Europe and Central and South America.
As an entrepreneur, Mr. Hosfeld served as the founding executive and artistic director of the Icicle Creek Music Center (ICMC) in Leavenworth, Washington. Hosfeld's vision enabled ICMC to grow from an international annual summer festival into a year round Chamber Music and Arts Center, complete with 15 buildings dedicated to serious classical arts teaching and performance (including a gorgeous concert hall) on a 9-acre campus. Hosfeld's decade-long tenure at ICMC made possible that organization's still flourishing curriculum of intense chamber music and orchestral programs for elite professional and highly qualified student musicians in a unique alpine setting.
In great demand as an educator, Mr. Hosfeld has served as Faculty/Artist-in-Residence for the University of Arizona, Eastern Mennonite University, James Madison University, Louisiana State University, Central Washington University, Omaha Conservatory of Music at the University of Nebraska and Creighton University, and California State University at Long Beach, and continues to direct his popular conducting and chamber music clinics across the continent. Also dedicated to the education of highly qualified pre-college musicians in inspirational environs, Scott Hosfeld founded two exceptionally successful and now long-standing youth orchestras in the 1980's and early 1990's, one in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia (Shenandoah Valley Youth Symphony), and the other in Washington's Cascade Mountains (Icicle Youth Symphony). Hosfeld is founder and conductor of the Malibu Coast Youth Symphony, established in 2009.
As a Conducting Fellow of the esteemed conductor of the New York City Ballet, George Manahan; and a viola and chamber music protégé of the late great concert artist, composer and pedagogue, Lillian Fuchs, Mr. Hosfeld earned his BM and MM from New York City's Manhattan School of Music with the Highest Honors. Grand Prize Winner of Young Artists International, Hosfeld made his Carnegie Recital Hall Debut in 1980 as violist and founder of the Riverside String Quartet, and won a coveted Aspen Music Festival Fellowship. With the Val Coeur String Quartet, Mr. Hosfeld has toured Russia, Western Europe and Central and South America.
As an entrepreneur, Mr. Hosfeld served as the founding executive and artistic director of the Icicle Creek Music Center (ICMC) in Leavenworth, Washington. Hosfeld's vision enabled ICMC to grow from an international annual summer festival into a year round Chamber Music and Arts Center, complete with 15 buildings dedicated to serious classical arts teaching and performance (including a gorgeous concert hall) on a 9-acre campus. Hosfeld's decade-long tenure at ICMC made possible that organization's still flourishing curriculum of intense chamber music and orchestral programs for elite professional and highly qualified student musicians in a unique alpine setting.
In great demand as an educator, Mr. Hosfeld has served as Faculty/Artist-in-Residence for the University of Arizona, Eastern Mennonite University, James Madison University, Louisiana State University, Central Washington University, Omaha Conservatory of Music at the University of Nebraska and Creighton University, and California State University at Long Beach, and continues to direct his popular conducting and chamber music clinics across the continent. Also dedicated to the education of highly qualified pre-college musicians in inspirational environs, Scott Hosfeld founded two exceptionally successful and now long-standing youth orchestras in the 1980's and early 1990's, one in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia (Shenandoah Valley Youth Symphony), and the other in Washington's Cascade Mountains (Icicle Youth Symphony). Hosfeld is founder and conductor of the Malibu Coast Youth Symphony, established in 2009.
