Scott Healy
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Scott Healy is a New York-based keyboardist and composer best known as the keyboardist of The Max Weinberg 7 on Late Night with Conan O'Brien on NBC. His wide-ranging performing and recording credits include many of the greats in rock, blues, R&B and jazz, including Bruce Springsteen, Bonnie Raitt, Al Green, BB King, Jackson Browne, Branford Marsalis, and Tony Bennett. He's also currently pursuing other projects including NYC supergroup The Coalition and the Scott Healy Tentet.
His composing and arranging credits include the Portland Maine Symphony Orchestra, the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble, the Hudson Valley Philharmonic, the Mel Lewis Orchestra, and pieces with Ricky Martin, and Christina Aguilera.
He received the Distinguished Artist Award from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, and numerous grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. He scored the New York City Torchlight award-winning film Digging for Dutch and has had other films shown at major festivals around the country.
A native of Cleveland, Ohio and an alumnus of Hawken School, Healy attended the Eastman School of Music, graduating with a degree in composition. While there he studied with Samuel Adler, Joseph Schwantner and Warren Benson.
