A performer devoted particularly to early and new vocal music, Scott has concertized as a tenor throughout the United States, England, Mexico, Scotland, and Norway. During his tenure as president of Ossia, the Eastman School of Music’s student-run new music ensemble, he supervised a successful concert season and instituted its now-annual international composition competition. He also served as Ossia’s director of public relations for two years.

As a researcher, Scott is particularly interested in compositional process in the music of Benjamin Britten and issues in the pedagogy of music theory. In 2006, on a grant from Eastman, he conducted sketch studies at the Britten-Pears Library in Aldeburgh, England, for a second consecutive summer. His paper, “‘Voices of Boys’: The Influence of Britten’s Missa Brevis in D on his War Requiem,” won the New York State/St. Lawrence chapter of the American Musicological Society’s award for the best student paper presented at its 2008 meeting. Scott has also served on the board of the music theory journal Integrál, for which he was also the graphics editor.