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Scott Eyerly is a composer, lyricist, and librettist active in many genres, from opera and theater to symphonic and art song. His one-woman comic opera My Life Online received its world premiere at the 2023 Edinburgh Fringe Festival starring Sarah Minns; also in 2023 his song “Sonnet” opened Symphony Space’s gala concert The Rebecca Luker Songbook, sung by Emilie Kouatchou. Other notable premieres include Creatures Great and Small, a song cycle for Jennifer Larmore first heard at France’s Megève Festival; Arlington Sons (now available on iTunes), performed by Broadway and Metropolitan Opera star David Pittsinger with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leonard Slatkin; and a staged reading of the musical comedy POOCH, selected to open the Santa Fe Musical Theater Festival. 

Eyerly’s opera The House of the Seven Gables received its first production at The Manhattan School of Music, directed by Linda Brovsky, and is available on Albany Records. Algonquin Songs, Eyerly’s setting of humorous verse by members of the Algonquin Round Table including Ring Lardner, Dorothy Parker and George S. Kaufman, was most recently performed at Symphony Space. Among Mr. Eyerly’s sacred compositions are Missa Brevis and Spires, both commissioned by Saint Thomas Church, Fifth Avenue. 


Other works include On Blue Mountain, a musical theater piece based on Appalachian folklore, commissioned by Philip Morris Companies Inc., first produced at Town Hall; Exultation Overture, commissioned by the New York Youth Symphony and first performed at Carnegie Hall; and Variations on a Theme by Honegger, winner of the Louisville Orchestra New Music Prize.  

Eyerly received his degrees in composition from the University of Michigan (B.M., studies with William Bolcom) and The Juilliard School (M.M., studies with Elliott Carter). He has done residencies at The MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, VCCA, Ragdale, and Banff Centre, Canada.  

Since 2007, Mr. Eyerly has lectured at The Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center in Great Barrington, MA, introducing the Met Opera Live in HD broadcasts. He has served on the Juilliard Extension Division faculty since 1988; the College Division faculty 2010-2014; and the Pre-College faculty, 1987-1990. He was born in Lake Forest, IL.