Tara Scott

Tara Scott is one of Atlantic Canada’s most renowned collaborative pianists. Her love of teaching and performing has led her to pursue staff pianist positions at Dalhousie (currently), Western, Acadia, and Mount Allison Universities. She has performed extensively with singers and instrumentalists across Canada.

Tara is co-artistic director and music director of OperAtlantic. She is also the primary music director and pianist of Maritime Concert Opera and has performed with DalOpera, Essential Opera, Eastern Front/Neptune and Halifax Summer Opera Festival among others. “Tara Scott, is a consummate artist and her dependably flawless piano accompaniments of full-length operas is inspiring” (Opera Canada). She received a 2019 Merritt Award for music direction of KAMP, the musical. 

Tara is featured on the 2022 JUNO nominated album Breathing in the Shadows, and Durme, durme, Four Ladino folk songs with soprano, Maureen Batt. She conducted and performed for Essential Opera’s recording of Monica Pearce’s Etiquette, nominated for a 2024 ECMA.Tara is on faculty as piano instructor and vocal coach at the Maritime Conservatory of Performing Arts. She has adjudicated for music festivals throughout the Maritimes and has worked as piano examiner for Mount Allison and MCPA. She maintains a busy private studio in Dartmouth NS where she lives with her husband, three kids and two dogs.