Co-founder & Co-director
Scott Lambert
Scott Lambert retired in 2005 after teaching for thirty-one years in the public schools of Virginia and South Carolina. He is co-founder and co-director of the State Line Wind Symphony and a forty-nine-year veteran of music education.
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Lambert was band director at John S. Battle High School, Fort Mill High School, Amherst County High School, Lee-Davis High School and Deep Creek High School. He served on the part-time faculties of the University of South Carolina, Winthrop University and Virginia Commonwealth University, and retired from James Madison University after six and a half years as Supervisor of Music Education.
He graduated with honors from East Tennessee State University and received his Master of Music Education with honors from Radford University. He has done postgraduate work at Wake Forest University, East Tennessee State University and Virginia Tech, and served as graduate teaching associate and director of the University Band at the University of South Carolina.
Lambert's bands received seventeen Virginia Honor Band Awards and more than 450 awards in marching, concert and jazz. They received more than sixty superior ratings at District Concert Assessment and performed for the National Band Association Convention, twice for the Virginia Music Educators Conference, and at the Mid-West International Band and Orchestra Clinic in 1989. His marching bands performed in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, the Tournament of Roses Parades, the Cotton Bowl Parade and the Orange Bowl Parade, among others.
He has guest conducted “Pershing's Own,” the United States Army Band, and the United States Pacific Fleet Marine Band. He has worked with jazz greats Dominic Spera and Wynton Marsalis, and composers John Edmondson, Alfred Reed and John Zdechlick have conducted his bands.
Lambert is a multiple recipient of the National Band Association's Citation of Excellence, a recipient of the American School Band Directors Association's Stanbury Award, and was awarded the John Philip Sousa Foundation's Sudler Legion of Honor. He was named the 2004–05 Outstanding Virginia Music Educator by the Virginia Music Educators Association and has been inducted into the Phi Beta Mu Honorary Band Director Fraternity Hall of Fame and the Virginia Band and Orchestra Directors Association Hall of Fame.
