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Our DirectorScott Lounsbury
of Wolfeboro, New Hampshire
Ever since high school, Scott Lounsbury has been an active participant in the world of choral music. “My very first choral experience was at UNH’s Summer Youth Music School; Mrs. Havsky had us sing a major chord with the basses singing the root. I’d never done that before... I was hooked!” Throughout his schooling years, Scott felt increasingly drawn to choral work: festival choruses in which he sang; church choirs in which he laughed, cried and glorified God; collegiate choruses, learning major choral works and creating some very fine music.
His first job was as a music educator and choral director in the Gilford Middle High School of Gilford, NH. While there, he discovered the joy of working with adult, amateur choral groups, when he was hired to direct Wolfeboro’s community chorus, the Clearlakes Chorale. He has been an advocate of community music programs ever since, having discovered the joy of creating art with one’s neighbors. In Wolfeboro, he found not only a driving avocation, but a home and a wife as well, marrying Rosemary, a long time friend who was in the soprano section. In the following years, Scott was a church choir director (for a year, he was a choir director at St. John the Evangelist in Concord), music minister, husband, and then father, to Matthew, a budding musical talent in his own right. Scott has the pleasure of directing the summer band in Wolfeboro, the Cate Park Band. Look for him many Wednesday evenings during the summer at the Community Band Stand in Cate Park, on scenic Wolfeboro Bay. Wave from the Mount Washington!
Scott is currently the chorus teacher for the Belmont Middle and High Schools, as well as teaching Belmont’s and Canterbury’s middle school students a lot about music history and music literacy. It happens on occasion that one or more of his students join him here in the chorale.
An enthusiastic director, he lists as his greatest passions community, family, God and making great music. He prides himself in assisting amateur singers to sound their absolute best. “The word ‘amateur’ is from the Latin root amas, amat... ‘to love.’ Community choruses are filled with people who are there solely for the love of singing, and it comes through in every performance. I love watching the older singers passing on their stories and their love to the younger ones; it is a community serving itself, rejuvenating itself. And how many activities can you name that have teenagers and octogenarians working side by side?”
Scott is now completing his fifth year with Suncook Valley Chorale and helps us achieve our motto: “Sing for Joy!”
