Patrick Scott

Organist

A native of Picayune, Mississippi, Patrick A. Scott holds a Bachelor of Music Degree in Organ Performance from Birmingham-Southern College, a Masters of Music Degree in Organ Performance and Sacred Music from the University of Texas at Austin, and is currently pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts, also from the University of Texas at Austin where he studies with Gerre and Judith Hancock. His major teachers have included Betty Polk, Kathy Vail, and James Cook.

While at Birmingham-Southern he was the Annie B. Ellis Organ Scholar and won the Minnie McNeil Carr Scholarship Competition and the Myrtle Jones Steele Scholarship Competition given by the Birmingham chapter of the American Guild of Organists. In 2007, Patrick was also the winner of the Birmingham chapter of the Regional Competition for Young Organists and went on as a finalist to Atlanta, Georgia. In January of 2008, he was first prizewinner of the first annual Clarence Dickenson Organ Competition hosted by William Carey University in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.

During the summer of 2009, Patrick made his international debut as part of the Summer Institute for French Organ Study at the Abbey Church of Ste. Criox in Bordeaux and the Church of Notre-Dame in Epernay, France. In the summer of 2010, Patrick was accepted into the University of Texas at Austin's Maymester Study Abroad Program where he traveled to England to study the English Sacred Choral Music tradition at churches and cathedrals in London, Cambridge, Oxford, and Winchester. Patrick currently serves as organist of University Christian Church in Austin.

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