Scott Carter served as chair of the instrumental department in the School of Music, guided the graduate program in wind conducting and was the conductor of symphonic wind ensemble and concert band at East Carolina University. He was elected to membership in the American Bandmasters Association. He earned his DMA from the University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music; and his MM and BM from East Carolina University. Dr. Carter is the former director of bands at Campbell University, Buies Creek, N.C., and was a doctoral conducting associate at the University of Cincinnati as conducting student of Eugene Corporon. At Cincinnati, Carter performed on two critically acclaimed compact-disc recordings, Made in America and Hearts Music. His extensive public school experience has included teaching instrumental music in Rocky Mount, N.C., where his marching band won the Marching Bands of America Grand National Championship three times.