Scott Leger
Scott Schiffer Leger is a performer, teacher, and content creator currently teaching as Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Kentucky and performing in the Louisville Orchestra as Associate Principal/Third Horn. Prior to joining the Louisville Orchestra, Scott performed four seasons as a horn fellow in the New World Symphony in Miami Beach, FL, and held the position of Principal Horn of the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra in Ithaca, NY. In addition, he has performed with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Lexington Philharmonic, The Florida Orchestra, and Omaha and South Dakota symphonies as a substitute musician, and has received fellowships to spend his summers at a variety of music festivals including the Tanglewood Music Center, National Repertory Orchestra, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival and National Orchestral Institute.
As a soloist, Scott has performed concerti with the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra and New World Symphony, and in the 2024-25 season, premiered a new concerto for horn and orchestra by Baldwin Giang with the Louisville Orchestra and music director Teddy Abrams. Scott regularly travels as a guest artist and has presented recitals in Puerto Rico, at the University of Oklahoma, University of Central Arkansas, and at workshops around the United States.
Scott maintains an online presence as an artist and educator producing content for his YouTube channel, Instagram and TikTok pages. Under the username @scottlegerhorn, he serves an audience of over 150,000 accounts, and has created over 1,000 videos, garnering tens of millions of views. As a producer, Scott presented over 20 concerts for the New World Symphony’s popular "Live from our Living Room" series, and also produced "Spectral Sounds," a concert series exploring the origins of spectral music, where he also was featured as a soloist in Tristan Murail's rarely performed work memoire/erosion for solo horn and nine instruments. He enjoys using the internet to build classical music audiences and hopes to build a platform to inspire horn-players and musicians of all ages to enjoy their craft.
Scott completed his master’s degree at the Yale School of Music under the direction of William Purvis in 2018. He received his bachelor of music degrees in music education with certification and music performance at Southern Methodist University, with minors in music theory and mathematics, in the studio of Gregory Hustis.