Scott Lawton – Orchestra Conductor, Pianist, Composer, Moderator, Author – Informationen über Scott Lawtons Arbeit als Musiker

Scott Lawton is an American conductor, pianist and composer based in Germany. His concerts and recordings of film music are well-known and highly successful. He is unusually adept at bridging divisions between classical and crossover genres. Additionally, Lawton is a versatile moderator, who enjoys enhancing an audience‘s concert experience with interesting background information.

Scott Lawton has conducted nearly every well-known masterpiece of orchestral film music in concerts. His affinity for this genre is rooted in a thirty-year long collaboration with the German Film Orchestra. With this elite ensemble, he has conducted hundreds of film music concerts. These often follow a thematic concept, for example „Adventure Films“, „From Babelsberg to Hollywood“, „Music from Outer Space“, „Western Film Classics“, „Jazz in Cinema“, „John Williams meets Hans Zimmer“, „Halloween in the Movies“, etc.

Parallel to presentations of concert film music, Scott Lawton has accompanied a wide repertoire of silent film classics, such as „City Lights“ and Gold Rush“ by Charlie Chaplin or „Metropolis“ by Fritz Lang. Following live performances with the Film Orchestra of „Pirates of the Caribbean“, he was chosen to present the first live performances in Germany of Disney’s „Fantasia“ in Munich, Stuttgart and Köln.

City Lights in the Ehrenbreitstein Fortress, Koblenz, Germany

For the past ten years, Lawton has conducted and moderated film music concerts in the Berlin Philharmonic Hall.

Lawton’s insights on current film music is sought after by radio producers in Germany, for example in February 2022 with Deutschlandfunk Kultur in connection with the 90th birthday of John Williams or with West German Radio after the death of „James Bond“ composer John Barry.

Lawton conducted a concert with the Cologne Philharmonic of film music by the Sir Malcolm Arnold, in the presence of the legendary composer. This concert programm was complemented by major compositions of Bernard Herrmann, including the complete music from „Taxi Driver“, whereby the the monologues were performed live for the first time by the Robert DeNiros „German voice“ Christian Brückner.