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Dr. Scott Routenberg: Jazz Pianist Bio
Dr. Scott Routenberg is currently Assistant Professor of Jazz Piano at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, where he teaches applied jazz piano, improvisation, and composition lessons, jazz improvisation, jazz theory, jazz history, jazz arranging, jazz piano lab, and directs jazz combos.
Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Scott began his jazz piano studies at the age of fifteen, inspired by his uncle, a pianist and vocalist. His jazz piano teachers include Ted Howe (former instructor at Berklee College of Music), Manfredo Fest (arranger and keyboardist for Sergio Mendes and Brazil '66; taught Maria Schneider), Dr. Scott Warner, Chip Crawford, and Vince Maggio (student of Oscar Peterson). Though he has played and recorded in almost every traditional and modern jazz piano style, Routenberg specializes in jazz standards and Brazilian bossa nova and samba. Some of Scott's jazz piano influences include Oscar Peterson, Bill Evans, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, and Benny Green.
Scott is the First Place Winner of the 2003 Hilton Head Jazz Society Scholarship, and he was one of the top 18 pianists in the 2006 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Piano Competition.
Jazz piano performance venues include the Montreaux Jazz Festival, Jazz à Vienne, the North Sea Jazz Festival, the Hilton Head Jazz Society, the Gainesville Friends of Jazz and Blues, the Biltmore Hotel (Miami), Sursa Performance Hall (Ball State Univesity), and numerous other club, restaurant, hotel, academic, and private events. Routenberg has performed with Mark Buselli, Brent Wallarab, Kenny Phelps, Greg Artry, Frank Smith, Frank Glover, Howard Levy, Billy Contreras, Arturo Sandoval, Jeff Rupert, Jack Wilkins, Mark Neuenschwander, Gary Keller, Ira Sullivan, John Michalak, Alejo Poveda, Dale Powers, Matt Bonelli, Julie Silvera, Phil Doyle, Scott Glazer, Kinah Boto, Brandon Wright, Troy Roberts, John Brown, the North Carolina Jazz Repertory Orchestra, the Naples Philharmonic Orchestra, and many more.
Scott's critically acclaimed, independently produced albums Jazztronicus (2006) and Lots of Pulp (2003) explore cutting edge jazz-‐influenced electro-‐acoustic hybrids. Both albums were recorded, edited, mixed and mastered by Scott in his home studio, and feature his playing on piano and keyboards.
Among his other graduate degrees, Dr. Routenberg holds a Master of Music in Jazz Piano Performance (2003) from the internationally esteemed jazz program at the University of Miami Frost School of Music, where he studied with Vince Maggio.