Kraig Scott is professor of music at Walla Walla University. An organist, harpsichordist, and musicologist, he has taught there since 1986 and directed the choral program since 2009. He also serves as minister of music and organist for the WWU Church and has been music director at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Walla Walla since1993.

Scott earned a Piano Performers Associateship in piano from the The Royal Conservatory of Toronto, Canada, at age sixteen. He completed a B.Mus. performance degree in organ at WWU in 1984, a master’s degree in early keyboard performance at the University of Oregon in 1986, and both an M.A. in musicology and a DMA in organ performance and literature at Eastman School of Music in 1993.

As a result of his degree recitals at Eastman, he was nominated for and received the coveted Performer’s Certificate. He was a scholarship student at UO and Eastman. Additionally, he was the Jerald C. Graue Fellow in musicology in 1991-1992, an annual award given to a student at Eastman who has done outstanding work in musicological research.

While still a teenager, Scott became organist at the Holy Rosary Cathedral in Vancouver, British Columbia. He has since held similar positions in Lutheran, Episcopal, and the First Church of Christ, Scientist. He studied organ with Melvin West, Lanny Collins at WWC, John Hamilton at UO, and David Craighead and Russell Saunders at Eastman. Other keyboard study included harpsichord with Arthur Haas and John Hamilton, and piano with Leonard Richter. Scott was selected to be one nine performers in a concert dedicated to Hamilton when he retired.

Scott has given numerous recitals on organ and harpsichord throughout the U.S. and in Europe, Canada, Korea, and Africa. He has given a number of highly acclaimed recitals with Joseph Brooks, professor of clarinet and saxophone at Central Washington University. In 1999, he was honored with an invitation to return to Eastman to conduct a master class and present both a lecture and a recital.

Scott received the Zapara Excellence in Teaching Award in 1989 and gave the Distinguished Faculty Lecture at WWU in the 2002-2003 school year.

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