Scott Cook, cello Nebraska native Scott Cook is well known as a teacher, chamber and orchestral musician.   His was described in the Greenville News as “a cellist who plays with the depth and intensity of Pablo Casals.”  As soloist , recitalist and chamber and  orchestral musician, he has performed around the world as principal cellist of many orchestras in the Southeast and Wisconsin, as member of the AIMS Orchestra in Graz, Austria and the Grand Teton Festival.  He is currently the solo cellist of the Skylight Opera and is a member of the Milwaukee based band, Joe 2.0.  He was cellist with the Belle Terre Piano Quartet and the Cezanne String Quartet  and has appeared on major recital series in Toronto, Chicago and Milwaukee.  He has made numerous recordings including those with members of the Swingle Singers, jazz recordings with Chuck Hedges Bun E. Carlos and for Hal Leonard.  Other chamber music collaborations include live broadcasts in Saint Louis, Greenville, SC, Wisconsin Public Radio and  “Live at the Elvehjem  Museum.”   He is the artistic director of the Swannanoa Chamber Music Festival Workshop and the director of the international teaching workshop, Teaching Cello To Children at the String Academy of Wisconsin at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Mr. Cook  has taught a virtually every level and in every possible teaching environment.  At the college level with positions at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Carthage College, Converse College, Carroll University, Alverno College and Limestone College.  The pre-college level at the String Academy of Wisconsin at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee converse College and the Greenville County Schools in South Carolina.  In 2008 he was  honored to be named   the Studio Teacher of the Year  by the Civic Music Association of Milwaukee.   He is currently the director of The Cello Institute of Milwaukee based in Whitefish Bay, WI. As the recipient of a full scholarship he received his Bachelor of Music from the Saint Louis Conservatory and a Master of Music degree from The University of Akron.  His major cello teachers were  Savely Schuster, Steven Schumway and Michael Haber.