Scott Hosfeld

Scott Hosfeld
Born	Washington, United States
Occupation(s)	Conductor, musical director, violist
Website	www.malibufriendsofmusic.org

Scott Hosfeld is an American conductor and violist.^[1] His performances and music supervision have contributed to myriad blockbuster movie scores with film composers including Hans Zimmer, James Horner, Randy Newman, James Newton Howard and Marco Beltrami.^[2]

Education

Hosfeld earned his BM and MM from New York City's Manhattan School of Music with the Highest Honors, as a Conducting Fellow of the esteemed conductor of the New York City Ballet and a viola and chamber music protege of concert artist, composer and pedagogue Lillian Fuchs.^[3]

Early career

In 1980 as the Grand Prize Winner of Young Artists International, Hosfeld made his Carnegie Recital Hall Debut as violist and founder of the Riverside String Quartet, and won a coveted Aspen Music Festival Fellowship. He also founded the Val Coeur String Quartet, where he and the group toured Russia, Western Europe and Central and South America.^[3]

Career

Educator

In 1989 Hosfeld became the director and violin/viola teacher at the Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, Virginia, where he had originally founded the Shenandoah Valley Youth Symphony Orchestra prior in 1990, partially funded by a grant from the Virginia Commission for the Arts.^[4] As an educator, Hosfeld has developed programs including the Junior he Junior Strings ensemble in 2001, and the Outreach Violin Project in 2002, which continue to provide instruction to area low-income students.^[5]

In addition to his time spent at Eastern Mennonite University, Hosfeld has been a faculty member and Artist-in-Residence the following Universities:

• California State University at Long Beach
• Central Washington University
• James Madison University
• Louisiana State University
• Omaha Conservatory of Music at the University of Nebraska and Creighton University.
• the University of Arizona ^[6]

Conductor

In 1995, Maestro Hosfeld founded both the Icicle Creek Youth Symphony and the Icicle Creek Institute Chamber Orchestra, where he has served as principal conductor.^[7] Hosfeld has also been principal conductor of the Kairos Festival Orchestra, the Dorian Festival Orchestra, the Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival Orchestras, the Icicle Symphony Orchestra, and the Central Washington University Chamber Orchestra;^[8] and has led concerti for premiere international concert soloists including Nathaniel Rosen, Camilla Wicks, Andrew Shulman, Paul Coletti, Delores Stevens, Steven Doane, Darol Anger, David Perry, Peter Longworth, Hal Ott, Eric Kutz, Miko Kominami, Denise Dillenbeck, Spencer Martin, John Michel, Carrie Rehkopf and Mike Marshall.^[3] Hosfeld is currently a conductor and music director of the Malibu Coast Chamber Orchestra (MCCO),^[9] and the director and conductor of the Malibu Coast Silent Film Orchestra,^[10] and currently holds the Alfred Newman Conducting Chair, and the Camilla Wicks Violin Chair at the Montgomery Arts House for Music and Architecture (MAHMA) in Malibu, California.^[11]

Music Director and Supervisor

Mr. Hosfeld has also served as Music Director and Supervisor on such important historical film restorations as the vintage silent classics, "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm" (1917) directed by Marshall Neilan and starring Mary Pickford; and "Quality Street" (1927) directed by Sydney Franklin and starring Marion Davies and Conrad Nagel.^[3]

Musician/Violist

Hosfeld maintains his status as a highly respected and in-demand violist, where he continues to perform on myriad block buster movie scores with the world's most renown film composers including, Hans Zimmer, James Horner, Randy Newman, James Newton Howard and Marco Beltrami.^[2] Please review recording credits below.

Filmography & Recording Credits

Year	Album/Movie	Artist/Composer	Position
2014 (completed)	Heaven's Rain	Maria Newman	music editor/music supervisor/musical director
2013	A Good Day to Die Hard (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)	Marco Beltrami	musician (viola)
2013	Saving Mr. Banks	Thomas Newman	musician
2013	The Wolverine (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)	Marco Beltrami	musician (viola)
2013	Man of Steel	Hans Zimmer	musician (uncredited)
2013	Monsters University	Randy Newman	musician (viola)
2013	Star Trek Into Darkness (uncredited)	Michael Giacchino	musician (viola)
2013	Short and Spicy Skits from the Other Side of Hollywood: The Home Movies of William Randolph Hearst (short)	Maria Newman	music supervisor
2012	After Hours (CD)	Glen Frey	musician (violin)
2011	Rango: Music from the Motion Picture	Hans Zimmer	musician (viola)
2011	Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides	Hans Zimmer	musician
2010	On Broadway (CD)	David Campbell	musician/viola
2010	Salt	James Newton Howard	musician
2010	The Last Airbender	James Newton Howard	musician
2010	Despicable Me	Heitor Pereira/Pharrell Williams	musician
2010	Why Did I Get Married Too?		musician
2009	The Princess and the Frog	Randy Newman	musician
2009	Case 39	Michl Britsch	musician
2009	Race to Witch Mountain	Trevor Rabin	musician
2008	Pride and Glory	Mark Isham	musician
2008	RocknRolla	Steve Isles	musician
2008	Leatherheads	Randy Newman	musician
2008	Meet the Browns	Aaron Zigman	musician
2008	Step Up 2: The Streets	Aaron Zigman	musician
2008	The Spiderwick Chronicles	James Horner	musician
2007	Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem	Brian Tyler	musician
2007	Battlestar Galactica: Season Three (Original Television Soundtrack)	Bear McCreary	musician (viola)
2007	Because I Said So (CD)	David Kitay	musician (viola)
2007	Blades of Glory (Original Television Soundtrack)	Theodore Shapiro	musician (viola)
2007	Next(Music from the Motion Picture)	Mark Isham	musician (viola)
2007	Shooter(Music from the Motion Picture)	Mark Mancina	musician (viola)
2007	Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium	Alexandre Desplat/Aaron Zigman	musician
2007	Enchanted	Alan Menken	musician
2007	August Rush	Mark Mancina	musician
2007	Saving Sarah Cain	Mark McKenzie	musician
2007	Underdog	Randy Edelman	musician
2007	No Reservations	Philip Glass	musician (viola)
2007	Hairspray (the movie)	Marc Shaiman	musician
2007	I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry	Rupert Gregson-Williams	musician
2007	Transformers	Steve Jablonsky	musician
2007	Transformers (Original Motion Picture Score) CD	Steve Jablonsky	musician
2007	Why Be Good? Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema	Maria Newman	conductor
2007	Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End	Hans Zimmer	musician
2007	Lucky You	Christopher Young	musician
2007	Spider-Man 3	Christopher Young	musician
2007	Disturbia	Geoff Zanelli	musician
2007	Blades of Glory	Theodore Shapiro	orchestra (viola)
2007	Blades of Glory (Original Motion Picture Score) CD	Theodore Shapiro	orchestra (viola)
2007	Reno 911!: Miami	Craig Wedren	musician
2007	The Number 23	Harry Gregson-Williams	musician
2007	Because I Said So	David Kitay	musician
2006	The Fox and the Hound 2 (video)	Joel McNeely	musician
2006	Deja Vu	Harry Gregson-Williams	musician
2006	Flicka	Aaron Zigman	musician
2006	All the King's Men	James Horner	musician
2006	Idlewild	John Debney	musician
2006	Battlestar Galactica: The Story So Far (TV Movie documentary)	Richard Gibbs/Bear McCreary	musician (viola)
2006	Battlestar Galactica: Season Two (Sci Fi Channel Series)	Bear McCreary	musician (viola)
2006	LiTTLEMAN	Teddy Castellucci	musician
2006	Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest	Hans Zimmer	musician
2006	Garfield 2	Christophe Beck	musician
2006	Monster House	Douglas Pipes	musician
2006	The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift	Brian Tyler	musician
2006	Inside Man	Terence Blanchard	musician (viola)
2006	Even Money	Dave Grusin	musician
2006	Eight Below	Mark Isham	musician
2006	Freedomland	James Newton Howard	musician (viola)
2006	Freedomland (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)	James Newton Howard	musician (viola)
2006	Sapphire (CD)	Teena Marie	musician (viola)
2006	The Sunny Side of the Street (CD)	John Lithgow	musician (viola)
2005	Black Yankee Rock (CD)	Chocolate Genius	musician
2005	Cheaper by the Dozen 2	John Debney	musician
2005	King Kong	James Newton Howard	musician
2005	The Legend of Zorro	James Horner	musician (viola)
2005	The Legend of Zorro (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)	James Horner	musician (viola)
2005	Flightplan	John Debney	musician
2005	Just Like Heaven	Rolfe Kent	musician
2005	The Island	Steve Jablonsky	musician (viola)
2005	The Island (Soundtrack)	Steve Jablonsky	musician (viola)
2005	The Longest Yard	Teddy Castellucci	musician
2005	Kicking & Screaming	Mark Isham	musician
2005	Sin City	Robert Rodriguez	musician (viola)
2005	Sin City (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) CD	Robert Rodriguez	musician (viola)

*The above table referenced from IMDB^[12] and AllMusic.^[2]

Awards and Recognition

Grand Prize Winner of Young Artists International, 1980^[11]

Classical Artist of the Year, 2010^[3]

Family Life

Scott Hosfeld is married to composer Maria Newman. The two make their home in Malibu, California where they are raising five children.^[13]

References