Elizabeth W Scott
Elizabeth W. Scott (“Biz”) has enjoyed working across a full range of community and professional music ensembles internationally. Continuing her decades directing and singing in choruses across multiple genres internationally, she leads the Newcastle-based a cappella chorus Hunter Women of Note and has led the Central Coast-based world music chorus, VERVE Harmony, as Music Director. She is also a frequent guest conductor: her orchestral work in NSW has included performances with the East Sydney Chamber Symphony and the Orange Symphony Orchestra, with whom she returns in concert in 2026.Based in New York City for two decades before her move to Australia, Elizabeth worked as music director and conductor with many opera companies, festivals, and choruses. As guest conductor at the Phoenicia International Festival of the Voice (NY), she conducted Carlisle Floyd’s Of Mice and Men to critical acclaim in Opera News. Her work in Europe has ranged from festival concerts at the historic Teatro Nuovo, in Spoleto, Italy, to the opening concert of the 2025 Opéra de Baugé festival season in the Loire Valley, France.
Elizabeth served many seasons as Opening Night and Assistant Conductor with the Bronx Opera Company, in New York City, where she was awarded The Bruno Walter Foundation’s prestigious national Assistant Conductor Chair and study grant. She has prepared acclaimed choruses for Opera Orchestra of New York at Carnegie Hall, assisted Maestro John Nelson’s preparation of the Chinese premiere of Mendelssohn’s Elijah at the Shanghai Grand Theater, prepared the chorus for Cirque du Soleil’s CD release party in New York City, and conducted the New York Choral Society in concert.
In recent years she has joyfully embraced the barbershop singing community. She’s coached various NSW barbershop ensembles and in 2024, her quartet, the Ms. Fits, took the silver medal in Barbershop Harmony Australia’s Eastern Region 2024 Women’s Quartet Competition. She looks forward to leading Hunter Women of Note at Newcastle’s Fringe Festival in March and its performance at the BHA Eastern Region contest, by invitation, in May.
