Scott Allen Jarrett

Scott Allen Jarrett is the director of music at Marsh Chapel and the director of choral activities, ad interim at Boston University. He celebrates his eleventh season with the Back Bay Chorale this year. Jarrett is also in his eleventh season as director of choruses and assistant conductor of the Charlotte Symphony in North Carolina.

Jarrett is a regular collaborator at Trinity Wall Street, guest conducting many performances including their Bach cantata series and their recent Britten celebration, among others.

Increasingly in demand for his expertise with the vocal works of Johann Sebastian Bach, Jarrett conducted performances of the B Minor Mass with Miami-based Seraphic Fire, served as music director of the Adams Vocal Master Class at the Carmel Bach Festival in 2011, and in the summer of 2013, served as director of the conducting master class with Helmuth Rilling at the Oregon Bach Festival. In 2005 Jarrett founded The Bach Experience with Boston University's Marsh Chapel Choir and Collegium and in 2011, Jarrett established the Living Composer Series at Marsh Chapel affording a regular interaction with contemporary music and an eagerness to engage in and practice new music.

Off the podium, Jarrett is active as a baritone in the Handel & Haydn Society and the Oregon Bach Festival and as a keyboard player. He can be heard as organist on Seraphic Fire's recording of the Monteverdi Vespers and as pianist on their recent Grammy-nominated recording of the Brahms Requiem. He served as accompanist for Helmuth Rilling and the late Robert Shaw, and through his long-time collaborations with his teacher Ann Howard Jones, served eight summers on the conducting staff at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute. Jarrett holds degrees from Furman University (BM) and Boston University (MM, DMA).