NAME:
Mr. Scott A. Heath, Music Teacher
SCHOOL:
Edison Intermediate Middle School and Grandview High School
CLASS:
Grade 5-7 Band, High School Band, Grade 4 Music.
SCHOOL PHONE:
Edison Intermediate School (614) 481-3630
Scott Heath is a graduate of The Ohio State University with a Bachelor of
Music Education and a graduate of Arizona State University with a Master of
Music.
Mr. Heath taught in the Springfield Northeastern Local School District, and
London (Ohio) City Schools before coming to Grandview in 2000. He was also
an adjunct euphonium instructor at Otterbein College for two years.
Mr. Heath is an internationally recognized euphonium soloist and is a past
member of the Brass Band of Columbus, the Central Ohio Brass Band, and the
Ohio Collegiate Brass Band. He has won two international solo
competitions on the euphonium, including the 1994 Rafeal Mendez institute
euphonium solo competition in Phoenix, and the 1995 ITEC Artist Division
Euphonium solo competition in Chicago. He was also a finalist in the
Leonard Falcone international Euphonium Solo competition in 1989 and 1990. In
addition he was the soloist of the day at the North American Brass Band
Championships in 1990 (Pittsburg) and again in 1997 (Raleigh, NC.), and
winner of the adult technical solo competition in 2000 when NABBA was held in
Columbus, Ohio. Mr. Heath had the privelege of playing with the Brass Band of
Columbus when they traveled to Birmingham, England in 2000. He was a five
year member of The Ohio State University Marching Band, and a squad leader in
1989 and 1990. He has been a member of ensembles that have performed at the
Ohio Music Education Conference, and the Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic in
Chicago.
His private students have won seats in Ohio all state bands and have won
state and national level solo honors. He has several students who are alumni
of the Ohio State University Marching Band.
His teachers include Dr. Paul Droste, Professor Dan Perantoni, and Dr. Brian
Bowman, and he as taken lessons from Timothy Northcutt, Joel Pugh, and Arthur
Lehman.
Teaching duties include recruiting students for instrumental music, teaching
fourth grade general music, directing fifth, sixth, and seventh grade band,
and team teaching the 8th grade band with Kie Watkins. In addition, Mr.
Heath is the assistant high school band director at Grandview High School,
where he is the chief drill writer for the Grandview Marching Band, and has
been writing half time shows for the band for the past 8 years.
Learn fundamentals of music through instrumental performance, create music
of various styles on musical instruments, develop good practice and
performance habits, work to achieve a team concept through playing in the
band.