Scott Allen
Jarrett, DMA is the Director of Music at Boston University’s Marsh
Chapel. His appointment at the University includes lectureships in
both the School of Theology in sacred music, and in the School of
Music on the conducting faculty. As director of
Music at Marsh Chapel, Dr.
Jarrett oversees the rich musical life of the Chapel, including a
music staff of associates, managers, Choral Scholars, and the Inner
Strength Gospel Choir. Dr. Jarrett is the Music Director of Boston’s
Back Bay Chorale and is on the conducting staff of the Charlotte
Symphony (NC), where he is Music Director of the Oratorio Singers of
Charlotte.
Through these appointments, Dr. Jarrett regularly conducts the great
masterworks of the choral/orchestral repertoire, with a particular
focus on the works of Johann Sebastian Bach. Having established the
Marsh Chapel Bach Cantata Series, he has conducted more than 35
cantatas, and multiple performances of each of Bach's four major
works (St John Passion, St Matthew Passion, Mass in B Minor, and the
Christmas Oratorio). As a keyboardist, he was a frequent accompanist
for the late Robert Shaw, and appears regularly as a continuo player
with Miami-based Seraphic Fire.
Dr. Jarrett served eight summers on the conducting
staff at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute in the
Berkshires. BUTI is part of the Tanglewood Music Center, the summer
home of the Boston Symphony.
BM, Furman
University; MM, DMA, Boston University; Present position, 2004.