Scott Starrett

Scott Starrett composes original music for award-winning television, feature films, theatre, audiobooks and games. The Boston Globe proclaims his work to possess “an attractively dappled quality as contrasting gestures interrupt and overlap each other.”

Starrett’s recent composing credits include Hulu’s Exposure; VH1’s scripted drama Daytime Divas; Fox’s medical drama The Mob Doctor; NBC’s conspiracy-thriller series The Event; and the score for all six seasons of Lifetime’s dramatic-comedy series Drop Dead Diva. Starrett’s film-scoring credits include the HBO feature Dim Sum Funeral and the Apollo astronaut feature documentary The Wonder of It All. He has collaborated as a composer-orchestrator with Michael Kamen on HBO’s From the Earth to the Moon, MTV’s Bryan Adams Unplugged, and musical arrangements for Lisa Loeb.

In the gaming and tech industries, Starrett excels collaboratively in both creative and technical roles. As a composer and audio director, he composed score for Kangaroo Interactive with IP from Disney and Netfliux. He also contributed additional music for the Appaloosa/Majesco action-adventure game Jaws Unleashed. As a program manager at Microsoft, he designed and led the implementation of the Microsoft Access “Simple Query Wizard,” a feature that still ships with Access. Recently, at Steinway, Starrett led the design and implementation of Conn-Selmer Connect, an online education platform for music teachers.

As a concert composer, Starrett’s works have been performed by the Boston-based Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra, the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, and the Juilliard Symphony. After graduating from Stanford University, Starrett earned a Master of Music degree from The Juilliard School, where he studied under John Corigliano, Academy Award­–winning composer of The Red Violin. Starrett was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to study music composition in Rome, Italy, under the sponsorship of renowned German composer Hans Werner Henze. Starrett was a MacDowell Colony Fellow and is currently a member of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP); the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop; and the Dramatists Guild.