Dr. Scott sherman, Piano Instructor, Classical pianist, composer and performer

Dr. Scott Lowell Sherman is a classical pianist, composer, and interdisciplinary artist working across piano performance, composition, and sonic art. He holds a Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA), Artist Diploma (AD), and Master of Music (MM) in Piano Performance from the College-Conservatory of Music (CCM), and a Bachelor of Music (BM) from the Michigan State University College of Music.

Sherman has performed, lectured, and collaborated internationally in China, Japan, Spain, Israel, Canada, France, Portugal, Brazil, the U.K., and throughout the United States. His works have been premiered at the 14th and 15th Concours International de piano d'Orléans (France), Porto Piano Fest (Portugal), and presented by venues including University for the Creative Arts, UCA (London), FILE Festival (São Paulo, Brazil), Al-Tiba9 (Spain), Highways Performance (Los Angeles), The Jupiter Museum of Art (Shenzhen), and Justart Space (Guangzhou). His recent albums include The Heart of Knowing; Scientia Sempiterna (2026), Elegy for an Angel’s Egg (2025), Organum Novum (2025), and Allegory of the Cove: Midnight, Daybreak, Dusk (2023). He has been invited as a guest artist and lecturer at Texas A&M University, The Evergreen State College, University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music, Nihon University College of Arts, Ekoda (Japan), Shantou University (China), Meiling Arts High School (Shenzhen), among others.

Sherman has served as a selected national panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts in music performance, where he provided national-level evaluation and guidance for federal arts funding. He is a laureate of the Tel-Hai International Piano Masterclasses (Israel), the 20th International Duo Piano Competition (Japan), the Ann & Charles Eisemann Competition, among others. As co-founder of the MusicXHabitatXArt (MHA) collective based in the US, China, and the U.K., Sherman has led interdisciplinary projects internationally, integrating piano performance, sculpture, artist robotics, and digital medias. MHA has worked closely with artists and institutions through residencies, published interviews, public exhibitions and performances, and collaborative publications. His current project, Cloud Ladder, Silken Poem (雲梯詩綾), investigates acoustic experimentation with water-modulated pitches, live acoustic manipulation feedback, and ethnomusicological studies of Asian music and literary traditions.

His principal mentors include Minsoo Sohn, Soyeon Kate Lee, Ronald Cavaye, Sandra Rivers, and Catherine Rollin. He has worked with pianists Richard Goode, Dmitri Bashkirov, Ursula Oppens, Julian Martin, Robert McDonald, Jerome Lowenthal, Emanuel Krasovsky (RU/IL), Asaf Zohar (IL), John Perry, Tatiana Zelickman (DE/RU), Frederic Chiu, Douglas Humphreys, Victor Rosenbaum.

Contact Information:  ScottSherman737@gmail.com   (248) 410-8437 or  Nancy, Director of Education nah@steinwaydetroit.com    248-560-0366  

 

 

Contact Information

• Contact Nancy, Director of Education at 248-560-0366 for more information or to register for lessons.

Note: There is a one-time $25.00 enrollment fee to Steinway Piano Gallery. Siblings are $15.00 each.