A. SCOTT WOOD, Music Director of the Washington Conservatory Orchestra, is also the Artistic Director of Amadeus Concerts (and Conductor of the Amadeus Orchestra), and Music Director of the Montgomery Symphony Orchestra and the National Cathedral School Orchestra. In 2009 he was named the Music Director of the Arlington Philharmonic. He is a regular guest conductor at the Orchestra Society of Philadelphia, and has recently appeared on the podium of the Washington Symphonic Brass, the Brevard (NC) Philharmonic and the Rutgers (NJ) Sinfonia. The Fairfax Symphony Orchestra, which he served as Assistant Conductor, awarded him the Serage Award for Music Education in 2006.

In recent years, Mr. Wood has appeared on the podium of the American University Orchestra, the Washington Savoyards, Eldbrooke Opera, and Signature Theatre. In 1999, he lectured at the Concurso Internacional de Canto Lirico in Peru and at a series presented by Borders Books. Under his leadership, Equinox Winds was praised by the Washington Post for its "warm and admirably clear" tone and "fine sense of shade and color". Mr. Wood's "Fanfare for a New Beginning" was nationally broadcast in 2000 on C-SPAN.

Mr. Wood was a Fellow of the International Workshop for Conductors in the Czech Republic and the South Carolina Conductors Institute. He has conducted in workshops led by the American Symphony Orchestra League and the Conductors Guild. He was awarded an unsolicited grant from the Geraldine C. & Emory Ford Foundation to the Keene Choral Festival in Connecticut, where he conducted choral and orchestral works. In 2002, he traveled to Italy under the auspices of a Great Cities Fellowship from the National Cathedral Foundation. He was invited to address issues facing young conductors for the 2003 Conductors Guild National Conference in New York.

Mr. Wood is committed to excellence in music education. He has worked with the American Youth Philharmonic, the Shenandoah Valley Youth Symphony, the Potomac Valley Youth Symphony, the Chesapeake Youth Orchestra, the Prince William Youth Orchestra and the D.C. Youth Orchestra. His innovative outreach work with Amadeus Concerts has garnered considerable acclaim.  

Born in Paris, Mr. Wood received his early training in a German Musikverein. He attended Mount Vernon High School in Virginia and the University of Illinois. As a trumpeter he played with the Smithsonian Chamber Orchestra, Washington Opera, Washington Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, National Chamber Orchestra and Brass Mosaic at Carnegie Hall. He was a finalist in the International Trumpet Guild Solo Competition in 1986. In 1989 Mr. Wood toured Europe as a member of the American Wind Symphony Orchestra, substituting as a conductor in Leningrad and Liverpool at the request of the musicians. Mr. Wood lives in Alexandria with his wife Mary McLaren-Wood and their two young daughters.