Dr. Scott Belck is Assistant Professor of Trumpet at Capital University's Conservatory of Music in Columbus, Ohio where he teaches the trumpet studio, coaches chamber music and performs with the Capital Brass Quintet and Spectrum, the faculty jazz enemble. He is a founding member of Tromba Mundi contemporary trumpet ensemble and has served as trumpet and cornet soloist with the Air Force Band of Flight in Dayton, Ohio where he also held the post of musical director for the Air Force Night Flight Jazz Ensemble.
He has performed as principal/lead trumpet with the Minnesota Ballet's Festival Orchestra, the Indianapolis Symphony, the Cincinnati Symphony, the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra, the Lexington Philharmonic, the Richmond Symphony Orchestra, and as section trumpet with the Duluth-Superior Symphony Orchestra and the Duluth Festival Opera. His playing credits include recordings lead trumpet/guest soloist with the Cincinnati Pops featuring the Manhattan Transfer and John Pizzarelli, the Glenn Miller Orchestra, the Van Dells, and jazz soloist with the University of North Texas One O'clock Lab Band with whom he recorded four CDs.
He has performed as lead trumpet for shows of Aretha Franklin, Linda Ronstadt, John Lithgow, Donna Summer, Maureen McGovern, Michael Feinstein, Lalo Rodriguez, Sandy Patti, Tommy Tune, Manhattan Transfer, Lou Rawls, The Coasters, Yes, Ben Vereen, Doc Severinsen, the Temptations, Olivia Newton-John, Neil Sedaka, the Blue Wisp Big Band, the Columbus Jazz Orchestra, the Dayton Jazz Orchestra, the Ink Spots, the Four Freshmen, The Frankie Avalon, Fabian, Bobby Riddell, Little Anthony and the Imperials, Frankie Valli, The Maritime Jazz Orchestra of Canada as well as touring Broadway shows and regional and national recording sessions.
He has performed as a leader, musical director, or sideman with many top jazz players on the scene today including: Fred Hersch, Adam Nussbaum, Lew Soloff, Randy Brecker, Slide Hampton, Jim McNeely, Claudio Roditi, John Riley, Rick Margitza, Bob Belden, Jimmy Heath, Bobby Watson, Tom Harrell, Tim Hagans, Regina Carter, Wes Anderson, John Hollenbeck, Steve Turre, Conrad Herwig, Gordon Brisker, Hank Marr, Marvin Stamm, Gerry Mulligan, Kenny Garrett, John Fedchock, Phil Woods, Ed Soph, John LaBarbera and Diane Schuur.
He has also served as the Artistic Director of the Dayton Jazz Orchestra and the Cincinnati Contemporary Jazz Orchestra and the Miami Valley Jazz Camp in Ohio. He has taught on the music faculties of the University of Minnesota Duluth, Miami University, the University of Dayton, Marshall University, Sinclair Community College, St. Francis Xavier University in Canada, as well as Harwood Middle School in Fort Worth, Texas.
Belck holds a Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of Cincinnati's College-Conservatory of Music (CCM), a Masters Degree in Trumpet Performance from the University of North Texas, and a degree in Applied Trumpet from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville,