Judson Scott first came in contact with early music as an undergraduate at Baldwin-Wallace College.  Every spring, the annual Bach Festival would take over the campus to perform major works by Bach and his contemporaries.  Suddenly, international artists such as Nancy Argenta, Arleen Auger', Frank Kelly, Peter Sykes and Sanford Sylvan would fill the music building, rehearsing and discussing the finer points of early music interpretation. Through observing and participating Judson was introduced to major works of Bach such as the St Mathew Passion, B minor Mass and important cantatas. 

While in graduate studies at New England Conservatory he won, with Paul Perfetti, the early Music Concerto competition, performing the Manrfredini Concerto for Two Trumpets under the direction of Daniel Pinkham. Also in Boston he performed regularly with Emmanuel Music under the direction of Craig Smith; the only orchestra in America regularly presenting the Bach cantatas in a liturgical setting.  More recently Dr. Scott has performed on Baroque trumpet with ensembles such as the Northwest Sinfonietta, the St. Mary’s Chamber Orchestra (Littleton, CO), the Benevolent Order for Music of the Baroque (BOMB), Northwest Baroque, Our Lady of Fatima Baroque Orchestra, and Seattle Pro Musica.  Judson can be heard playing Baroque trumpet on a CD  with the Seattle Trumpet Consort, After Baroque, available on Origin Classical.

The trumpet on which Dr. Scott performs is made by Andrew Naumann and is a handmade copy of an instrument originally made by Johann Leonhard Ehe II (Nuremberg 1664-1724). The length of the valve-less instrument--twice as long as a comparable modern instrument--expands the range of colors available in the sound: the low range lends itself to the strong fanfare style traditionally associated with trumpets, while the upper range is capable of great lyricism. Composers of the Baroque made use of both of these styles, unfortunately no modern instrument satisfactorily performs both.