Scott Zane Smith has been active in the School of Music for 26 years in many areas. He is currently the Coordinator of the Class Piano Curriculum and Supervisor of the graduate students teaching in the Piano Pedagogy curriculum. As an instructor, he is teaching or has taught Music Appreciation, Group Voice and Acting, Private Voice, Jazz and Show Choir Methods, Theory and Composition and all sections of Class piano. As an accompanist, Professor Smith has accompanied in the flute, violin, oboe, and voice studios and also accompanied in musical theatre performance classes in the School of Theatre and Dance. As an adjudicator, Professor Smith judges for events sponsored by Virginia Choral Directors Association (VCDA), Virginia Music Educators Association (VMEA), and the Virginia Bland Foundation. He also actively adjudicates show choir festivals in the Mid-Atlantic region. As a clinician, he has served as guest conductor for county and district choruses throughout Virginia and has been a guest clinician at the University of Wisconsin (Madison) Summer Arts Program, conducting and choreographing.

Professor Smith has also served on the faculty at Shenandoah University and Mary Baldwin College and is currently the artistic director of CHORDIALLY YOURS OF THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY located in Broadway, VA. He received an undergraduate degree in music education from James Madison University, a master’s degree in Piano Accompanying from Shenandoah Conservatory of Shenandoah University and has completed 100 Post Masters credits from Shenandoah University and James Madison University acquiring certification in the College Student Personnel Administration program (CSPA). Professor Smith previously taught in Rockingham County Public Schools and was named to Who’s Who among Teachers, and Who’s Who among Americans. He is a retired Minister of Music after 42 years of church work. He is married to his life partner, Brian, and they live with their cat Mamie in McGaheysville, VA.