This is Scott MacLeod’s 20th engagement with the North Carolina Symphony. He most recently appeared with the Symphony in 2023, for concerts celebrating Independence Day in Wilmington, Garner, and Cary.

Scott MacLeod maintains an active musical career as a singer, teacher, conductor, and stage director. A resident of North Carolina from 2006-2024, he performed as soloist with North Carolina Opera, Piedmont Opera, Greensboro Opera, Long Leaf Opera, Carolina Performing Arts, Winston-Salem Symphony, Greensboro Symphony Orchestra, Durham Symphony Orchestra, Mallarmé Music, Carolina Ballet, North Carolina Master Chorale, Eastern Music Festival, and numerous recital and concert venues across the state. He served as North Carolina Opera’s chorus master for 11 years, including 29 operas and Andrea Bocelli’s 2024 Valentine’s Day concert in PNC Arena. He was Professor of Music at High Point University from 2010-2024, where he received the 2021 “Innovation and Creativity in Teaching” Award. 

Notable international work includes three tours of Messiah with the National Symphony Orchestra of Costa Rica; a performance of original works by J. Mark Scearce at the historic Municipal House in Prague; and a State Department-supported recital tour in Marseille, France, which culminated in a performance in Monaco for Prince Albert II and invited guests (he performed the same concert in the Washington National Gallery Music Series in April 2023). In 2017 he was awarded an honorary faculty post at Shaoguan University (Guangdong, China), where he staged and music directed their first full opera production, Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo.

MacLeod is currently Associate Professor of Voice and Lyric Theatre at the University of Illinois.