Heights Choir - Directors

Mr. Scott Tilley is a Music Educator and Tenor. He is the Head Choral Director at Arlington Heights High School in Fort Worth ISD. Since arriving at Arlington Heights he has aided the choral program in doubling it's size, creating a Show Choir, and building a Choir Culture on the campus. In addition, he has created the first SATB UIL competing ensemble in 15+ years at Arlington Heights. Mr. Tilley has lived in California, Utah, and is beginning to call Texas home. Mr. Tilley has always loved choir and knows the impact music can have on student academics, morale, and development of life-long skills. He has a passion for creating beautiful music that moves his students and audiences to action in their lives and communities.

Mr. Tilley has a Masters Degree in Vocal Performance from the UNT College of Music and a Bachelor of Music Education from BYU-Idaho. Mr. Tilley has experience as a conductor, vocal pedagogue, and performer. Most recently he has performed the Tenor Solos in Handel's Messiah with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra and the Lead Role in the Opera Faust by Charles Gounod. He loves watching the Food Network and exploring new restaurants. He also loves Buc-ee's, Whataburger, crazy socks, grilling, and enjoys spending time with his wife, Rachael and their Mini Australian Shepherd, Cooper. Mr. Tilley and his wife have one baby boy who is 9 months old, Bridger.

Mrs. Nanto is our Voice Teacher at Arlington Heights. She offers voice lessons that take place during choir. Mr. Tilley highly recommends that students take advantage of this worthwhile opportunity.

Mezzo-Soprano Kayla Nanto completed her Master of Music in Vocal Performance at University of North Texas and Bachelor of Music at University of Northern Colorado. She is a Performing Artist with The Dallas Opera's Education and Outreach program, which performs children's operas weekly at elementary schools throughout the DFW area. Her most recent engagements include Fileno in Clori, Tirsi, e Fileno with American Baroque Opera, Alto soloist in Messiah with the Ft. Worth Symphony Orchestra, Alto soloist in Petite Messe Solennelle with the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Choral Union, Suzuki (cover) in Madama Butterfly with Opera Ft. Collins, and Ulisse in Orchestra of New Spain’s world premiere of Achillo in Sciro. During her studies, she performed the roles of Siébel in Faust, Petra in A Little Night Music, and Flora in La Traviata at University of North Texas, and the title role in Carmen, and Angelina in La Cenerentola at University of Northern Colorado.

Dalton Myatt is our Choreographer. He was born in a suburb outside of San Francisco, California. He moved to Keller, Texas where he started taking dance classes at a young age. He took ballet, tap, jazz, and hip hop until he started pursuing other fine arts such as band and choir. He first got a taste of show choir in 8th grade where his mom, Kelli Myatt was his choreographer. He attended Keller Central High School, home of the nationally recognized show choir, Voices of Central. He got to learn from choreographers such as Stephen Todd, April James, Steph Hyatt, and Ben and Melissa Eklund throughout his high school years. After developing a love of show choir, he decided to attend the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. As a member of the schools show choir, The Big Red Singers, he was given many incredible opportunities that allowed him to learn a lot and learn quickly. Soon after starting school, he started to assist Ben and Melissa Eklund with their show choirs. As an apprentice of Ben’s, he learned a lot about being a choreographer. Since then he has choreographed for a number of groups ranging from the Midwest to the great state of Texas, where one of his groups has won the Lone Star Invitational for their second year in a row. Dalton’s passion is helping students learn about hard work and perseverance. He hopes to instill a sense of community and pride in all of them.