• Email Address: smccoy@rider.edu
• Phone: (609) 921-7100 ext. 8104
• Office: Taylor Hall 8
• Mailing Address: 101 Walnut Lane, Princeton, NJ 08540

Scott McCoy is Professor of Voice and Pedagogy, Director of the Presser Music Center Voice Laboratory, and Director of Graduate Studies at Westminster Choir College of Rider University.  His multimedia voice science and pedagogy textbook, Your Voice: An Inside View, was introduced in mid-2004 and has since been adopted by over one hundred colleges and universities throughout the United States and abroad (visit http://www.voiceinsideview.com/ for additional information about this text).  Deeply committed to education, McCoy is a founding faculty member in the New York Singing Teachers Association (NYSTA) professional development program, teaching classes in voice anatomy, physiology, and acoustic analysis.

McCoy maintains an active singing career.  To date, he has performed more than two dozen leading operatic roles and over sixty concert and oratorio solo roles with professional music organizations in the United States and abroad.  In addition, he is a specialist in the song cycles of Schubert and Schumann, frequently concertizing with pianists Claude Cymerman and J.J. Penna.

A long-time member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS), McCoy holds the office of President-Elect and assumes the office of President of the Association in July, 2008. Additionally, he is the Associate Editor of the Journal of Singing for voice pedagogy, chair of the NATS Voice Science Advisory Committee, and was selected as a Master Teacher for the 2005 NATS Intern Program.  In 2003 he was elected to membership in the distinguished American Academy of Teachers of Singing.  Prior to joining the Westminster faculty in 1997, he was chair of Voice and Opera at the University of Iowa.

McCoy was named a University of Iowa Fellow in the fall of 2007.