Director: Dr. Scott McGlasson

Dr. Scott McGlasson is the Director of Orchestral Activities Music at Cupertino High School in Cupertino, California and the Chair for Area 12 of the Handbell Musicians of America. Scott is a graduate of The University of Nevada Las Vegas holding a Doctor of Musical Arts Degree with a concentration in Wind Conducting and also holds a Master of Arts degree in Secondary Education from Chapman University and a Bachelor of Music degree in Composition from California State University Stanislaus. Scott regularly guest performs with the Nevada Chamber Orchestra and has played with the Cello Society of Southern Utah, The Santa Maria Philharmonic, The Lompoc Pops Orchestra and was the assistant conductor for the San Luis Obispo Grand Opera as well as principal conductor of the Las Vegas Youth Orchestra. His teachers have included Thomas G. Leslie, Anthony LaBounty, Zane Douglass, Viet Cuong, and Deborah Kavasch.

Scott is an accomplished composer who has had works premiered at such events as the 2017 Handbell Musicians of America National Conference in Anaheim, California and was a featured composer for From The Top Music Publishing at the 2024 HMA National Conference in Hartford, Connecticut.. In 2023 his composition Brother Green was selected as a finalist in the Midwest Clinic new school band composition contest. Scott has been a music educator in California and Nevada for ten years where he has taught middle and high school band, orchestra, and choir in the Clark County School District in Las Vegas, Nevada, Arroyo Grande High School in Arroyo Grande, California and Silver Creek High School in San Jose, California. Scott is a published composer with the Lorenz Corporation and From The Top Music. He is a member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Music Fraternity, The Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, and the American String Teacher Association.