Brian S. Story

Brian has been a music educator for forty years. For eight years, he was director of bands at the Alternative School for Math & Science in Corning, NY from which he recently retired. Brian retired from public school teaching after thirty-two years during which he was director of bands at the Canandaigua City Schools and the Prattsburgh Central School.  His ensembles have received numerous awards and recognitions. He has been a guest conductor and adjudicator at numerous music festivals.  He received his B. S. in Music Education and his Masters of Music from Mansfield University in Mansfield Pa. where he studied both vocal and instrumental performance and has been honored as a MU Music Department Alumni of Distinction.  Brian also studied choral composition with Dr. Z. Randall Stroope.

Brian is an active composer and performer as an instrumentalist and vocalist. He has numerous published marching band and concert band compositions and arrangements under the pen name Brian Scott (Alfred/Belwin), and choral works under Brian Story (Colla Voce).  As a choral/vocal performer he has been a member of Madrigalia (Rochester, NY), Musica Spei (Rochester, NY), was the founder of the Motet Singers (Corning, NY), bass section leader and then choir director at Christ Episcopal Church (Corning, NY).  As an instrumentalist, Brian was the conductor of the Finger Lakes Concert Band (Canandaigua, NY), a member of the All Star Big Band (Corning, NY), Southern Tier Wind Ensemble (Elmira, NY), and The Corning Area Community Band (Corning, NY). He is a member of the New York State School Music Association, the National Association for Music Education, the New York State Band Director’s Association, and is a member of ASCAP.   Brian and his wife Amy, a very active choral director and educator, recently moved to Rutland, MA.