Biography
Scott Ninmer is a composer, arranger, and orchestrator whose music has been performed internationally by leading artists and ensembles.
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Ninmer’s credits include projects for or featuring Wynton Marsalis, Trisha Yearwood, Fred Hersch, Richard Bona, Raul Midón, Gregory Porter, Lalah Hathaway, Cécile McLorin Salvant, Joel Ross, and Benjamin Millepied, among others. His music and arrangements have been performed by the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Metropole Orkest, Minnesota Orchestra, WDR Big Band, Danish Radio Big Band, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, and United States Air Force Airmen of Note.
His work has been presented at the BBC Proms, White House, Hollywood Bowl, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Lincoln Center, Rockefeller Center, Kennedy Center, Wolf Trap, DR Koncerthuset in Copenhagen, and Piazza Maggiore in Bologna.
Ninmer’s discography includes work as a composer, arranger, orchestrator, and conductor. Selected recordings include Miho Hazama’s Live Life This Day: Celebrating Thad Jones, Fred Hersch and the WDR Big Band’s Begin Again, Raul Midón and the Metropole Orkest’s Grammy-nominated If You Really Want, and the University of Illinois Concert Jazz Band’s Free Play. His extended jazz-orchestra composition Night Suite, conducted by Ninmer and recorded in New York, is included on Jim Pugh’s New American Symphonies.
For more than a decade, Ninmer has contributed arrangements and new and revised orchestrations to productions and concerts at Signature Theatre in Arlington, Virginia. His work there has included Cabaret, West Side Story, A Chorus Line, Pippin, Play On!, and the recurring Broadway in the Park concerts at Wolf Trap.
His concert music is published by Kendor Music, UNC Jazz Press, McGinty Music, and independently.
His honors include prizes from the “2 Agosto” International Composing Competition, Detroit Jazz Festival Arranging Competition, DownBeat Student Music Awards, New York Youth Symphony First Music program, USAF Sammy Nestico Award, and ASCAP Foundation Young Jazz Composer Awards.
Ninmer earned a BM in jazz performance from the University of Illinois and an MM in jazz composition from Manhattan School of Music. Since 2014, he has served as the staff arranger for “The President’s Own” United States Marine Band.
The information presented here has been prepared solely by the author. Neither “The President’s Own” United States Marine Band, the U.S. Marine Corps, nor any other component of the Department of Defense or the U.S. Government has endorsed this material.
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