Scott Selfon

Principal Violist

Scott Selfon (b. 1976) was born and raised in suburban Detroit, Michigan, and currently resides in Redmond, Washington. His compositions have been performed at Seattle’s Town Hall, the Kirkland Performing Arts Center, Meydenbauer Center, ACT (A Contemporary Theatre), Seattle Center, Bellevue Square, Redmond Town Center, and on both television and live radio broadcasts. Scott is the principal violist of the Sammamish Symphony, performs regularly with the Puget Sound Symphony Orchestra, and is a member of the Encore Four string quartet (www.encorefour.com). He founded the Pacific Northwest’s premiere Jewish a cappella group, Hachi Pele, at the University of Washington in 1998, and composed, arranged, directed, and performed with the group for its first seven seasons.

Professionally, Scott works at Microsoft as the Xbox Senior Audio Specialist, assisting composers, sound designers, and audio programmers with technical and creative challenges in developing audio for games. Scott is an alumnus of the University of Southern California, where he obtained dual degrees in music composition (film scoring emphasis) and computer engineering/computer science. Scott has composed music for a wide range of media, including film, television, video games, and live performance. He is the co-author of the book "DirectX Audio Exposed: Interactive Audio Development" (Wordware Publishing), winner of the 2003 Game Audio Network Guild (G.A.N.G.) Best Audio Publication award. Scott is a member of the Seattle Composers Alliance and the Game Audio Network Guild. A regular lecturer and panelist at various game- and audio-related conferences, he becomes an adjunct professor on the University of Southern California faculty in the spring to teach a self-developed undergraduate course entitled ‘Music and Sound Design for Video Games’.