Performing as both a violinist and violist, Scot Moore works in a variety of musical genres. Active in early, classical, and new music communities, he is also an experienced performer in folk, rock, jazz, latin, pop, and contemporary improvisation. With a wide range of stylistic proficiency, Scot has enjoyed working with such notable and varied artists as Natalie Merchant, Neal Schon, Dawn Upshaw, Peter Serkin, Amanda Palmer, Andre Nickatina, and Bill T. Jones.

In addition to his role as assistant principal viola in the San Franciscso Ballet Orcehstra, Scot appears widely in the Bay Area with San Francisco Opera, Monterey Symphony, Symphony San Jose, Santa Cruz Symphony (asst. principal viola), One Found Sound, San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, Mercury Soul, Awesöme Orchestra Collective, San Francisco Philharmonic, and in collaboration with numerous other local artists.

Scot has worked with a broad array of composers and performers: Joan Tower, Pauline Oliveros, William Parker, George Tsontakis, Benjamin Boretz, Mason Bates, Don Byron, Tania Leon, Michael Harrison, David Lidov, Joseph Summer, John Halle, Aki Takahashi, Harold Farberman, Kyle Gann, Pablo Ortiz, Richard Teitelbaum, Heather Masse, Dylan Mattingly, David Bloom, Steve Hackman, Oscar Cortez, Anders Parker, Hunter Hunt-Hendrix, Ian Flanigan, and Jherek Bischoff, amongst many others. Scot can be heard on releases from PBS, Cartoon Network, ESPN, Hyperion, Navona, Nonesuch, Albany Records, Open Space, Recorded and Freed, Mantralogy, and various independent self releases. He has premiered music in collaboration with Contemporaneous, Da Capo Chamber Players, Bang On a Can All-Stars, San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, One Found Sound, Mercury Soul, and Shattered Glass, and leads an active role in the production, performance, and promotion of new music. In the Historical Performance world he has collaborated with the Sebastians, TENET Vocal Artists, and Early Music New York, curating and performing concerts in New York and the Hudson Valley.

From 2015-2018 he held the position of co-principal viola of The Orchestra Now, and in 2018 sat as assistant principal viola for the Grafenegg Academy Orchestra. He has appeared in venues around the world, including the Mariinsky Theater, Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, Berlin Konzerthaus, Prague Rudolfinum, NCPA Beijing, Shanghai Grand Theater, Kneisel Hall, Jordan Hall, Carnegie Hall, David Geffen Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Whitney, Library of Congress, Beacon Theater, Greek Theater, Santa Barbara Bowl, The Fisher Center, Chicago Symphony Center, Harris Theater, and Chicago Theater, among numerous others.

Scot earned his BA, BM, MA, and Performance Certificate from Bard College. As a student, Scot worked extensively with members of the Beaux Arts Trio, Julliard, Orion, Mendelssohn, Pacifica, Colorado, Tashi, and Guarneri quartets, as well as notable pianists Gilbert Kalish, Seymour Lipkin, and Peter Serkin. Scot’s past teachers include: Edward Kreitman, Cyrus Forough, Desiree Ruhstrat, Laurie Smukler, Daniel Phillips, Luis Garcia Renart, and Marka Gustavsson.