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Assistant Professor of Clarinet and Saxophone, Scot Humes earned a Doctor of Musical Arts from Stony Brook University, a Master of Music degree from Ball State University, and a Bachelor of Music degree from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. His primary teachers include Larry Mentzer, Lawrence McDonald, Caroline Hartig, Charlie Neidich, Alan Kay and Dan Gilbert.

Before joining the ULM faculty, Dr. Humes taught a large studio of private students in New York, was faculty at SUNY Stony Brook in the Pre-College Chamber Music program and was the Clarinet and Saxophone Instructor for the Music Academy of Long Island and the Huntington Music Academy (NY).

An active performer in New York and Long Island on clarinet, bass clarinet and saxophone, his orchestral memberships have included Principal Clarinet in the Peconic Chamber Orchestra(NY) and the Orchestra of St. Marks(NY), Second Clarinet in the Marion Philharmonic(IN), and Assistant Principal/3rd/Bass/E-flat in the Muncie Symphony(IN). He has also performed with the Wild Ginger Philharmonic(NY), Anderson(IN) and Fort Wayne(IN) Symphonies. As a master’s student Humes was a winner of the Ball State University Graduate Concerto/Solo Competition, won Second Place in the Grace Orchestra Society Solo/Concerto Competition, and won both the Indiana State and the Great Lakes Division of the National Federation of Music Clubs Orchestral Winds auditions. He has performed the Mozart Clarinet Concert K.622 with the Peconic Chamber Orchestra and was the clarinet soloist in Frank Martin’s Concerto for Seven Winds, Timpani, Percussion, and Strings with the Stony Brook Symphony Orchestra. His chamber music experience has included membership in the Stony Brook Contemporary Chamber Players and the North Shore Pro Musica, and he was a founding member of the Astralis Woodwind Quintet.

Humes is a member of the College Music Society, the National Association of College Wind and Percussion Instructors, and the International Clarinet Association. His recordings include the 2003 release of Meyer Kupferman’s Structures with the Stony Brook Contemporary Chamber Players, and a 2005 recording of Black Sky Hate The Moon, a contemporary opera by composer Max Duykers.

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Office Location: Biedenharn 264

Phone: 318-342-1576

Email: humes@ulm.edu