CindyScott

Cindy Scott was born in Tupelo, Mississippi, into a family of musicians and educators — her mother a classically trained concert pianist, her father a band director who played fifteen instruments. She studied classical flute at Louisiana State University on a music scholarship, discovered jazz as an exchange student in Germany, and spent several years in Houston before leaving a corporate career in 2005 to pursue music full time. She returned to Louisiana, earning a Master of Music in Jazz Studies from the University of New Orleans.

It was in New Orleans that Scott found her voice as a composer and bandleader. Her second album, Let the Devil Take Tomorrow (Catahoula Records, 2009), won the OffBeat Best Contemporary Jazz Recording award and launched her first international tours. Her third album, Historia (2014), was a fully original set produced by Scott herself, featuring Grammy-nominated and winning artists including Karrin Allyson.

In 2016, Scott moved to Boston to join the faculty of Berklee College of Music as an Associate Professor of Music, where she serves as Program Director of Vocal Summit. She speaks German and Spanish, holds master’s degrees in both jazz performance and international business, and has performed in more than twenty countries.