Conductor and Music Director, Malibu Coast Chamber Orchestra
Associate Conductor Sierra Symphony Orchestra
Principal Conductor Eastern Sierra Chamber Symphony
Camilla Wicks Violin Chair Violinist and Violist
Acclaimed Conductor and Music Director of the award-winning Malibu Coast Chamber Orchestra (MCCO), and currently the Associate Conductor of the Sierra Symphony Orchestra, Scott Hosfeld
is a favorite among his professional colleagues and students. Hosfeld
has been principal conductor of the Icicle Creek Chamber Orchestra, the
Kairos Festival Orchestra, the Dorian Festival Orchestras, the
Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival Orchestras, the Icicle Symphony
Orchestra, the Central Washington University Chamber Orchestra and the
Eastern Sierra Symphony Chamber Orchestra. Hosfeld has led concerti for
premiere international concert soloists Nathaniel Rosen, Camilla Wicks,
Andrew Shulman, Paul Coletti, Delores Stevens, Steven Doane, Darol
Anger, David Perry, Peter Longworth, Hal Ott, Aimee Kreston, Eric Kutz,
Miko Kominami, Denise Dillenbeck, Spencer Martin, John Michel, Carrie
Rehkopf and Mike Marshall.
As
a Conducting Fellow of the esteemed conductor of the New York City
Ballet, George Manahan; and a viola and chamber music protege of the
late great concert artist, composer and pedagogue, Lillian Fuchs, Mr.
Hosfeld earned his BM and MM from New York City's Manhattan School of
Music with the Highest Honors. Grand Prize Winner of Young
Artists
International, Hosfeld made his Carnegie Recital Hall Debut in 1980 as
violist and founder of the Riverside String Quartet, and won a coveted
Aspen Music Festival Fellowship. With the Val Coeur String Quartet, Mr.
Hosfeld has toured Russia, Western Europe and Central and South America.
As
an entrepreneur, Mr. Hosfeld served as the founding executive and
artistic director of the Icicle Creek Music Center (ICMC) in
Leavenworth, Washington. Hosfeld’s vision enabled ICMC to grow from an
international annual summer festival into a year round Chamber Music and
Arts Center, complete with 15 buildings dedicated to serious classical
arts teaching and performance (including a gorgeous concert hall) on a
9-acre campus. Hosfeld’s decade-long tenure at ICMC made possible that
organization’s still flourishing curriculum of intense chamber music and
orchestral programs for elite professional and highly qualified student
musicians in a unique alpine setting.
In
great demand as an educator, Mr. Hosfeld has served as
Faculty/Artist-in-Residence for the University of Arizona, Eastern
Mennonite University, James Madison University, Louisiana State
University, Central Washington University, Omaha Conservatory of Music
at the University of Nebraska and Creighton University, and California
State University at Long Beach, and continues to direct his popular
conducting and chamber music clinics across the continent. Also
dedicated to the education of highly qualified pre-college musicians in
inspirational environs, Scott Hosfeld founded two exceptionally
successful and now long-standing youth orchestras in the 1980’s and
early 1990's, one in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia (Shenandoah
Valley Youth Symphony), and the other in Washington's Cascade Mountains
(Icicle Youth Symphony). Hosfeld is founder and conductor of the Malibu
Coast Youth Symphony, established in 2009.
Mr. Hosfeld has served
as Music Director and Supervisor on such important historical film
restorations as the vintage silent classics, "Rebecca of Sunnybrook
Farm" (1917) directed by Marshall Neilan and starring Mary Pickford; and
"Quality Street" (1927) directed by Sydney Franklin and starring Marion
Davies and Conrad Nagel. As Music Supervisor, Hosfeld is currently in
production on the independent film, "Heaven's Rain," depicting the true
life story of Brooks Douglass. Elected in 1990 at age 27, Douglass was
the youngest State Senator to ever serve in Oklahoma. Spurred by the
brutal murder of his parents when he was only 16, his very significant
and ground-breaking legislation while in office, was a bill ratified in
1992 championing the rights of crime victims.
Commended
by the United States Congress, the California State Senate, the
California State Assembly, and twice from his home City of Malibu for
his work as a major visionary for the non-profit Malibu Friends of
Music, Mr. Hosfeld currently holds the Alfred Newman Conducting Chair,
and the Camilla Wicks Violin Chair at the Montgomery Arts House for
Music and Architecture (MAHMA) in Malibu, California. Hosfeld is the
recipient of a 2010 Malibu Music Award as "Classical Artist of the
Year."
