Scott Lang

Scott Lang
Lecturer of Music
Director of Percussion Studies, Faculty Jazz Ensemble
Percussion Ensemble, Steel Drum Band
Music of World Cultures, History of Rock and Roll
M.M., Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music
B.M., Ball State University
Office: FA 132
Phone: (859) 572-6983
E-mail: langs@nku.edu

Scott Lang is currently the Percussion Area Coordinator in the Department of Music at Northern Kentucky University where he teaches applied percussion, directs the percussion ensemble and steel band, and teaches various music courses including Percussion Methods, the History of Rock and Roll, and the Music of World Cultures.

Averaging over 100 performances a year, he performs in a variety of genres and venues throughout the Midwest, nationally and around the world. Mr. Lang has traveled to Africa, Asia, Central America and Europe to study or perform music and he has performed concerts in Guatemala City, Beijing, Guangzhou, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Taipei, Singapore and numerous cities in Japan and South Korea as well as over two thousand performances in the United States and Canada.

Mr. Lang is the principal Timpanist/Percussionist with the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra and is also a frequent performer with the Cincinnati Symphony and Pops Orchestras as an extra percussionist having played on 19 Telarc label recordings with these groups. He also remains an active extra percussionist with the Louisville Orchestra and the Dayton Philharmonic.

Mr. Lang recently appeared on a PBS national Broadcast as an extra percussionist with the Cincinnati Pops in Take Me to the River. He also appears on two nationally broadcast PBS specials that began airing in 2007 and will continue to air periodically over the next several years. These specials, Fifties Pop Parade, My Music and Sixties Experience Part II, My Music, feature a variety of famous pop and rock and roll artists of the 1950s and 1960s. A short list of the many artists Mr. Lang has performed with include: Tony Bennett, Cab Calloway, Kristin Chenoweth, Peter Frampton, James Galway, Art Garfunkel, Dizzy Gillespie, Robert Goulet , James Levine, The Moody Blues, Luciano Pavarotti, The Temptations, and Andre Watts.

A member of the NKU Faculty Jazz Quartet, Mr. Lang is also an active drum set performer in the greater Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky area. Mr. Lang has performed large multiple-percussion setups for 22 national touring productions of Broadway musicals when they play at Cincinnati's Aronoff Center and Dayton's Schuster Center.

Mr. Lang also has performed nationally as a cimbalom artist and last performed on this Hungarian hammered dulcimer-like instrument with the St. Louis Symphony. He has also been featured on this instrument with the Seattle Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony, Columbus Symphony, and Cincinnati Symphony Orchestras as well as other orchestras in Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio.