Scott J. McCoy
Scott J. McCoy is an American tenor. He is Professor of Voice and Pedagogy and Director of thePressor Voice Center Laboratory at Westminster Choir College of Rider University in Princeton, New Jersey. Dr. McCoy holds a DMA from Iowa State University. He is the author of Your Voice: an Inside View, published in 2004, which has been adopted by over one hundred colleges and universities in the United States and abroad. He is a founding member of the New York National Association of Teachers of Singing development program. He is currently the president of the National Association of Teachers of Singing. He was elected to membership in the American Academy of Teachers of Singing in 2003. A professional operatic and oratorio tenor, McCoy maintains an ACTIVE singing career. To date, he has performed more than two dozen leading operatic roles and over sixty concert and oratorio solo roles with professional music organizations in the United States and abroad. In addition, he is a specialist in the song cycles of Schubert and Schumann, frequently concertizing with pianists Claude Cymerman and J.J. Penna.Before taking his position at Westminster in 1997, McCoy was an associate professor of voice at the University of Iowa. He was named a University of Iowa Fellow in 2007.
Dr. McCoy's most prominent student is arguably Anwar Robinson, the seventh-place finisher in the 2004-2005 American Idol competition. Other students of note include tenor Timothy Fallon and sopranos Daniels Holderby Cortese and Elizabeth Bouk.