Scott Eyerly has been recognized for achievements in theater, opera, symphonic, choral, song, and chamber works. Arlington Sons was given its world premiere by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leonard Slatkin, in October 2012, featuring Broadway and opera star David Pittsinger. Multiple performances of both chamber and orchestral versions took place in the D.C. area in fall 2014, in conjunction with the release of the work on CD and as digital download. Other works include the opera The House of the Seven Gables, produced at Manhattan School of Music and now available on double CD from Albany Records; Exultation Overture, commissioned by the New York Youth Symphony and first performed at Carnegie Hall; The Palm at the End, a sextet for piano and winds commissioned by Chamber Music America for the ensemble Hexagon; On Blue Mountain, a music theater piece based on Appalachian folklore, commissioned by Philip Morris Companies, Inc.; Storm King for brass octet, recorded by an ensemble of principals from orchestras in the Northeast and released on Sonora Records (under its original title Sinfonia); Fanfare after Chabrier's "L'Étoile," commissioned by Glimmerglass Opera; and Variations on a Theme by Honegger, a large-scale symphonic piece, winner of the Louisville Orchestra New Music Prize.
Portrait by Erica Lyn
