Professionally, Scott has over 40 years in public as a Certified Public Accountant. Scott has been a licensed real estate broker for approximately 35 years, and a Series 7 licensed securities broker for 10 years.  

Scott has served on the Board of Directors of the Santa Barbara based Environmental Defense Center and Ventura Land Trust. Scott has volunteered at the Ventura County Small Claims Court as an arbitrator, and as a mediator for the Ventura County Bar Association.   

Scott’s first association with Libbey Bowl was as the Los Angeles Philharmonic student representative at UCSB in 1976 when Aaron Copland was the conductor. Scott served on the City of Ojai Libbey Bowl ad hoc Committee in 2015 and 2016.

Scott has performed as a trumpet player in a wide variety of settings including, orchestral, jazz, blues, pop, dixieland, concert band, brass quintet, soloist, recording and musical theatre.  He has performed with the Kona Brass, Chamber Orchestra of Kona, the Olliephonic Horns and Telarc blues recording artist Kenny Neal and opened for Grammy winning vocalist Dianne Reeves.

Scott attended the Los Angeles Film Conducting Intensive Workshop at Warner Brothers Studio in January 2017.

He studied music at Ventura College, USCB, and Cal State Chico.

He has had private trumpet study with Uan Rasey, (MGM studio orchestra), Bill Phillips, (Canadian Brass), Larry Weiss (father, Chicago Symphony), Paul Merkelo (Montreal Symphony), studio players Chris Tedesco, Gary Grant, and jazz legend Bobby Shew

Scott studied conducting with Ronald Ondrejka (Santa Barbara Symphony) and Dr. Richard Rintoul.

Scott attended the conducting workshop at the Cabrillo Festival with teachers Marin Alsop and Gustav Meier and the Maestro Conducting workshop with the San Francisco Philharmonic.

He has conducted: the Ventura County Concert Band, Ojai Summer Band, Chamber Orchestra of Kona, Nashua Chamber Orchestra, Santa Barbara Reading Orchestra at UCSB and Ojai Summer Band.

Scott is the founder of the Ojai Pops Orchestra (2016) and Ojai Pops Concert Series.

Scott is a founding member of the Ojai Band, aka Ojai Summer Band, (1990) where he served as Principal trumpet for over 25 years.  Scott currently conducts the Ojai Band and is co-manager.

He is the producer of several musical documentary DVD’s on professional trumpet players: www.trumpetworld.net.  Scott has filmed many of the top trumpet players in the world, including Bobby Shew, Carl Saunders, Anthony Plog, Clark Terry, Malcolm McNab, Wayne Bergeron, Jon Lewis, Bobby Bryant, the Dallas Brass, and the Canadian Brass.

Andrew is a professional musician and administrator having performed 3x/in Carnegie Hall as a pianist and violinist and has had multiple tours with local and national orchestras. In addition to his work as a musician and educator, he has also held leadership roles with The Colour of Music Festival, Gateways Music Festival and Sphinx Organization.

Andrew’s work with DC Strings Workshop, a non-profit he founded in 2017 and scaled from inception to +$2M in a few years serving thousands of students, produced hundreds of orchestra concerts and recitals which led to features in local and national media outlets including orchestral and performance appearances at The Kennedy Center, Dumbarton Oaks and collaborations with Washington Performing Arts and the National Park Service. He is most proud of a partnership which featured young students on the back of a Kit-Kat bar celebrating young musicians from across the country. This success exemplifies his unique ability to not only provide stewardship and leadership over the arts, but to galvanize patrons, donors, and staff to move transformational initiatives forward. 

While varied and diverse, Andrew’s experience centers on advancing the quality, creativity, and sustainability of arts organizations, both in the DC area and nationwide. He brings a vision and perspective, informed by a successful career in the arts and communications, that enables him to bring together artists, audiences, and philanthropists in new ways, charting a vision for the future that extends beyond programming or performances and honors the importance of arts education at a national scale. 

In June 2024, the League of American Orchestras selected Andrew as one of thirty orchestra professionals for its prestigious Orchestra Management Essentials program at Juilliard. The program is widely considered the orchestra field’s premier program for cultivating the potential of rising professionals. Through collaboration across a national cohort, industry-specific leadership projects, and dynamic mentoring from top industry professionals, members of the cohort shape and influence the orchestra world as it evolves to meet changing needs and audiences.

Andrew serves as a Trustee and Vice-President of The Frederick Douglass Historic & Memorial Association, and is on the Junior Board of Washington Performing Arts. Other notable achievements include Andrew completing a Nonprofit Executive Leadership Program at Georgetown University. Andrew and his wife have two young children. 

As a young student, James studied both piano and tenor saxophone, participating in piano recitals, concerts, marching band performances throughout junior high and high school, and even performing in a Rock and Roll band during his high school years.

Those experiences shaped his appreciation for the arts, creativity, discipline, and community. Like many adults, however, life and career responsibilities gradually pulled him away from continuing to develop and enjoy his musical talents. Today, that experience has inspired a renewed appreciation for the importance of providing opportunities for young people to explore music, creativity, and personal growth — opportunities that can positively influence a lifetime.