Scott Wheeler is an American concert-music composer, born February 24, 1952, in Washington, D.C., now based in Boston, Massachusetts.
As an active conductor and an advocate for the music of his colleagues, he has led numerous world and local premieres and recorded several compact discs.
In February 2006, he was one of several composers selected as part of the Metropolitan Opera/Lincoln Center Theater commissioning project for a new operatic work.
As such, he has a wide knowledge of and interest in poetry, and in addition to Kenneth Koch, he has set texts from authors ranging from St. Theresa of Avila to Wallace Stevens and Mark Van Doren.
His vocal settings evoke natural speech rhythms and contours, called by Boston Globe critic Jeremy Eichler "transparent and elegant.