Scott Lubaroff is Professor of Music and Director of Bands at the University of Central Florida, where he conducts the UCF Wind Ensemble and oversees all areas of the university’s comprehensive bands program, which includes three directors, three graduate assistants, four concert bands, chamber winds, the 400+ member Marching Knights, and the Jammin’ Knights Pep Band. Dr. Lubaroff guides the graduate program in instrumental conducting and teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in conducting and music education. Under his leadership the UCF Wind Ensemble recently performed for the 2026 College Band Directors National Association Southern Division Conference and was previously selected to perform for the 2020 conference. They have released two commercial recordings, Zodiac Concerto and Zodiac Concerto II, via Flying Horse Records, and a third, D[RAM]EDY, a concerto for solo piano & wind ensemble, is due out in the fall of 2026 under the Klavier Records label. They have been actively engaged in the commissioning and premieres of new works for wind band and chamber winds, composer and artist residencies, and special events, including the annual UCF Conductors Symposium, Knights Rising High School Honor Bands, and Music for All UCF-Orlando Concert Band Invitational. Members of the UCF Wind Ensemble also performed under Dr. Lubaroff's direction at the 2019 Florida Music Educators Association Conference in support of his special topic session.

Prior to his appointment at UCF, Dr. Lubaroff served as Director of Bands (2005-2017) and Chair of the Department of Music (2014-2017) at the University of Central Missouri, in Warrensburg. Under his direction, the UCM Wind Ensemble performed twice in Carnegie Hall (2016, 2010), made three appearances in seven years as a featured ensemble at the Missouri Music Educators Association Conference (2015, 2011, 2008), and performed for the Southwest Division Conference of the College Band Directors National Association (2014). The Marching Mules grew by more than 50 percent during his twelve years at UCM and Dr. Lubaroff and the UCM Bands were deeply involved in the commissioning of new works by many of today’s most prominent and rising composers for wind band and chamber winds, and his graduate conductors went on to accept collegiate and high school teaching positions throughout the United States, as well as conducting assistantships in some of the nation’s most prominent doctoral programs. In 2013, Dr. Lubaroff was recognized with the Governor’s Award for Excellence in Education, and was also the 2009 recipient of the UCM College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences’ New Faculty Achievement Award.

Dr. Lubaroff also served previously as Associate Director of Bands at Kansas State University (2001-2005), and Director of Bands at Williamsburg High School, in Iowa (1991-1997). He earned his DMA from Michigan State University, and MFA, MA, and BM degrees from The University of Iowa. He is very active as a guest conductor, clinician, and adjudicator for concert and marching bands, throughout the United States and internationally, including leading the International Conducting Symposium at Mahidol University in Salaya/Bangkok, Thailand and professional conducting engagements and professional conference presentations in South Korea and Prague, the Czech Republic, and Canada. His publications include a book on the neo-classical wind music of Igor Stravinsky, published by the Edwin Mellen Press, transcriptions for wind band of Johann Strauss, Jr.’s Éljen a Magyár, Op. 332 (Wingert-Jones)and John Psathas' Omnifenix for solo jazz tenor saxophone, drum kit & wind ensemble (Promethean Editions), and a peer-reviewed article in the “Journal of Band Research,” on Paul Hindemith’s Konzertmusic für Blasorchester, Op. 41. He also has a book forthcoming through Excelcia Music Publishing, a directors rehearsal guide for marches.

Dr. Lubaroff is a passionate advocate for the development of new music for mixed winds and for combined acoustic and electroacoustic instruments, and he is a staunch defender of public education and for music in America’s schools. He is a member of the College Band Directors National Association and the National Association for Music Education, and he currently serves as President Elect of the Big 12 Band Directors Association.. He also holds honorary memberships in Kappa Kappa Psi and Tau Beta Sigma, and is a proud former Sinfonian of Phi Mu Alpha.