Scott Alberti is a Trombonist, Composer, Educator, and Bandleader based in Philadelphia that has performed alongside great musicians like Terell Stafford & The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra and the Aspen Festival Orchestra. He has personally performed his music internationally from New York to Japan, has been accepted into prestigious programs including YoungArts and The American Brass Quintet Seminar at Aspen, and he placed as an alternate in the ITF Carl Fontana Trombone Competition. Scott's arrangements range in style from chamber groups to big bands, and he hopes to continue making many musical memories with people for the rest of his life.
Scott Alberti started playing professionally in parades and big bands around Massachusetts at the age of 15. At 12, however, is when he would first fall in love with the craft through the music of Tommy Dorsey and Carl Fontana. In his senior year of high school, Scott was accepted into the New England Conservatory Youth Jazz Orchestra where he would write and perform his first big band chart. At 18, Scott was accepted into Temple University for Jazz Performance as well as the YoungArts program for Jazz Trombone.
While at Temple, Scott has had the privilege to work with and learn from musicians such as Terell Stafford, Tim Warfield, Dick Oatts, Rob Edwards, John Swana, Bruce Barth, Jeb Patton, Steve Fidyck, and Justin Faulkner among many others. Alongside his professors at Temple and other musicians in the Philadelphia area he closely studied, and continues to study, with John Allred in New York. At 20, he had the incredible opportunity to travel to Japan and perform with the Ray Kaneko Quintet as well as share the stage with many Japanese musicians in clubs all across Tokyo. Immediately following Japan he was invited to the Atlantic Brass Quintet Seminar where he would start his journey into classical and chamber music.
In his junior year of college, Scott started playing with Temple's premiere Grammy-nominated big band, the Temple University Jazz Band (TUJB), directed by Terell Stafford. As a part of TUJB, Scott toured America’s Midwest, performed at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, returned to Tokyo for TUJB's inaugural trip to Japan, as well as performed at Jazz at Lincoln Center's Rose Hall alongside The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra amongst other opportunities.
The summer before his senior year of college - as the trombonist of the Tavern Brass Quintet - Scott was accepted into the 2024 American Brass Quintet Seminar hosted by the Aspen Music Festival and School. While attending: Scott made his orchestral debut with the Aspen Festival Orchestra under the direction of Robert Spano, attended studio class with Per Brevig and the 2024 AMFS trombone studio, studied closely under Hillary Simms of the American Brass Quintet, premiered his first original work for brass quintet, as well as participated in studio classes/private coachings from the American Brass Quintet.