Scott Slapin is an American violist and composer of music for the viola.
Education
Slapin graduated at the age of eighteen from the Manhattan School of Music, where he studied with Emanuel Vardi. In memory of Vardi, he wrote "Capricious", a viola trio which references several of Paganini"s Caprices. Slapin"s Nocturne is dedicated to his composition teacher and mentor Richard Lane.
Career
Slapin has written four albums of recital music featuring the viola and was commissioned to write the required piece for the 2008 Primrose International Viola Competition. He served on the committee for the first Maurice Gardner Composition Competition and co-premiered the winning work, Rachel Matthews" Dreams, at the 38th International Viola Congress. At the age of eighteen he was performing daily as the solo violist in the New York City production of Gerald Busby"s Orpheus In Love, a chamber opera about Orpheus recast as a viola player.
Slapin plays a viola built by Hiroshi Iizuka.