Scott J. Brunscheen's "sweet and substantial lyric tenor" (Chicago Tribune) has garnered acclaim throughout the conutry in operatic and oratorio repertoire of the baroque, classical, and contemporary eras.  A frequent guest soloist with Haymarket Opera, his recent performances there of Handel's Il resurrezione, Caccini's La liberazione di Ruggiero dall'isola d'Alcina, Haydn's L'isola disabitata, Marais' Ariane et Bachus, and Cesti's L'Orontea received praise from Opera News, Chicago Tribune, Wall STreet Journal, Chicago Classical Review, and many others.  In spring of 2024, he made his Kennedy Center debut under the baton of Christophe Rousset in Moret's Les fêtes de Thalie with Opera Lafayette.

Other concert and operatic engagements have included the world premiere of Stewart Copeland's The Invention of Morel at Chicago Opera Theater, Mozart's Die Zauberflote with Madison Opera, Purcell's The Fairy Queen at Long Beach Opera, Mozart's Requiem with Chicago Chorale and Haydn's The Creation at DuPage University.  He has also performed in Purcell's The Fairy Queen at Chicago Opera Theater, Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmélites and Donizetti's La Favorite at the Caramoor Festival, Britten's The Turn of the Screw and The Rape of Lucretia with Chicago Fringe Opera, and Rossini's La Cenerentola with Lyric Opera of Chicago's Lyric Unlimited program.

As a young artist, Brunscheen understudied and performed in Donizetti's La Fille du Regiment, Puccini's Tosca, and Heggie's Dead Man Walking (Madison Opera); Glass' The Fall of the House of Usher, Mose in Egitto, Giasone, and Die Zauberflote (Chicago Opera Theater); Chin's Alice in Wonderland and Sondheim's Sweeney Todd (Opera Theater of St. Louis)' Rossini's Guillaume Tell, Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia and La Favorite (Caramoor Bel Canto Festival); Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia and La Cenerentola and Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Candid Concert Opera)' and Mozart's Don Giovanni with Opera New Jersey.

Outside of his work in opera, Brunscheen has been the tenor soloist for Orff's Carmina Burana, Handel's The Messiah and Judas Maccabaeus, Pergolesi's Magnificat, Bach's Magnificat, Resphigi's Lauda per la Nativita, Donizetti's Miserere, Mendelssohn's Elijah, Britten's Serenade and Canticles, and cantatas of Bach, Buxtehude, and Rameau.  He has been a finalist and prize winner in the Oratorio Society of New York, Handel Aria Competition, Grand Rapids Keller Bach Award, and American Prize in Opera.