Scott Gendel is currently a professor at Albion College, where he teaches courses on orchestration, the interactions of music and words, and contemporary directions in music. He also works as a freelance composer and arranger, vocal coach and accompanist for professional opera companies, and music director / pianist for theatrical productions. His compositions have a wide-ranging scope, but Scott is particularly fond of all things vocal, having written eleven song cycles, twelve stand-alone songs and duets, three pieces for voices and orchestra, seventeen choral works including a 45-minute dramatic Madrigal Comedy for children, a large Mass for choir and chamber ensemble, and two operas.

In 2005, Scott was awarded first prize in the ASCAP / Lotte Lehmann Foundation Song Cycle Competition, a juried national award in its inaugural year. That same year, he received his Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Composition from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with a minor in Opera Accompanying and Vocal Coaching.

Scott is Composer-In-Residence with the Madison Festival Choir for their 2009-2010 concert season. His composition teachers have included Stephen Dembski, Daron Hagen, and Joan Tower. Scott has received commissions from New Music New York, the Hobart and William Smith Colleges Cantori, soprano Julia Faulkner, the University of Wisconsin-Madison choral department, and numerous other performers and grant organizations. As a collaborative pianist, he has worked professionally for Opera North and Madison Opera, and has performed a wide range of repertoire, including Petrouchka with the UW-Madison Symphony Orchestra.