Scott Brickman

Scott Brickman (b. 1963, Oak Park, IL USA) is passionate about sport and his Baltic and Slavic ancestry and culture. Until 2016 he played baseball as an amateur in the United States and Canada and has coached high school baseball in Maine. He has also run 10k races in both the United States and Canada. Starting in 2018, he has attended summer school at the University of Latvia in Riga, studying Latvian Language and culture. 

Scott received his education at the University of Wisconsin (B.M. 1987) and Brandeis University (Ph.D. 1996) where he studied with Pulitzer Prize winning composer Yehudi Wyner.

Currently he is Professor of Music and Education at the University of Maine at Fort Kent where he has taught since 1997. Though scholarship has not been the focus of his activities, he recently presented papers on set theory and jazz history in Strasbourg, France, and Lviv, Ukraine respectively. His orchestral music has been performed and recorded by ensembles in Czechia, Poland, and Ukraine.