Scott Harrison

Celebrated as a leader with “imagination and ambition” by the LA Times and “a pioneer in the use of digital technology” by the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Scott Harrison has established a reputation as one of the most creative minds working in music today. He has secured millions of dollars in funding for artistic, educational, and community-focused projects at the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in partnership with Detroit Public Television, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra in partnership with the USC Thornton School of Music, Hawai’i Symphony Orchestra, and Louisiana Philharmonic.

As executive vice president and provost at the Cleveland Institute of Music, Harrison’s responsibilities include faculty hiring and development, academic affairs and admission, student affairs and services, and artistic administration and operations. Serving as strategic and creative partner to President Hogle in fulfilling CIM’s mission to empower its students and vision to be the future of classical music, he has strengthened relationships and expanded CIM’s footprint among its key partners locally and nationally; launched the Academy (CIM’s reinvigorated approach to comprehensive musical training for youth); created the Perspectives Series to bring classical music’s most dynamic performers to campus; is infusing the curriculum with courses designed to meet the needs of enterprising young performers; and has made several transformational faculty appointments to serve the evolving and diverse needs of CIM’s students.  

Provost Harrison has performed at Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Teatro Colon, and Lincoln Center. He has served as second bassoon of the Irving Symphony; performed with the Indianapolis, Shreveport, and Dallas Wind symphonies, and Orchestra of the Americas; played woodwinds in pit orchestras for musicals and operas; and taught and coached privately and for organizations across the Western Hemisphere.

Deeply committed to arts education as a right and a believer in the power of cultural diplomacy, he is board chair of BLUME Haiti, which supports music education and leadership skills for more than 5,000 Haitian students annually.