Scott Boerma

Listen to Concert Band Works below!

Scott Boerma (b. 1964) was the music arranger for the Madison Scouts Drum and Bugle Corps from 1989-2006. In addition to several other corps in the United States, Boerma has arranged for marching bands and drum corps from Japan, United Kingdom, The Netherlands, and Thailand. Competitive high school bands around the world have enjoyed great success with Boerma's charts. Other credits include marching band arrangements for the University of Michigan, Michigan State University, the University of Texas (both Austin and Arlington), the University of Illinois, Texas Tech University, Baylor University, and Jacksonville State University. Most of the Big Ten University marching bands have performed Boerma's arrangements. Boerma has also arranged music for the Detroit Chamber Winds Brass.

Boerma's original concert band works have been performed by many outstanding ensembles, including the Dallas Wind Symphony, the Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra, the University of Illinois Wind Symphony, the University of North Texas Wind Symphony, the University of Michigan Concert Band, the BOA Honor Band of America, and the Interlochen Arts Camp High School Symphonic Band, to name just a few. His works have been heard in such venues as Carnegie Hall, Hill Auditorium, the Myerson Symphony Center, the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts and at the Chicago Midwest International Band and Orchestra Clinic.  One of Boerma’s works appears in Volume 6 of the popular series, “Teaching Music Through Performance in Band”. Most of Boerma's concert band works are published by the Neil A. Kjos Music Company and Arrangers' Publishing Company.

Scott Boerma is Associate Director of Bands, Director of the Michigan Marching Band, and the Donald R. Shepherd Associate Professor of Conducting at the University of Michigan.  Prior to this appointment, Boerma was the Director of Bands at Eastern Michigan University. He earned his Master of Music degree in music education from the University of Michigan, where he studied composition with Pulitzer Prize winning composer William Bolcom, and his Bachelor of Music degree in music education from Western Michigan University, where he studied composition with Ramon Zupko. Scott has also studied composition with Pulitzer Prize nominated composer Anthony Iannaccone.

Boerma has an extensive list of available previously performed custom marching band arrangements, and he is available to write original concert band/orchestra works and custom designed marching band arrangements for your ensembles. Read further to see his growing list of original concert band works!

All marching band arrangements are for winds only. Boerma would, however, be happy to recommend both percussion and drill writers.

Please email Scott for information on available Marching Band arrangements and Concert Band works! He will gladly send you some Demo CDs of his available music for free!

Contact Scott:

> Phone & FAX: (734) 449-9866
> E-mail: sboerma@voyager.net

Business Address:
Madison Music Works, LLC
c/o Scott Boerma
10911 Charring Cross Circle
Whitmore Lake, MI 48189

Concert Band works...
Scott Boerma has written several new Concert Band works in which you may be interested, including:

Let There Be Peace
Written during the week following the terrorist attacks upon the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, this concert band setting of "Let There Be Peace On Earth" (by Jill Jackson & Sy Miller) evokes not only the disbelief, sadness, and fear inspired by the acts, but also the renewed patriotism, confidence, and hopefulness that the people of America have felt since that unforgettable day.

Please listen to the following new
Concert Band works by Scott Boerma:
  • Cityscape (Soon to be published by Boosey & Hawkes in the "Windependence" series. Recently premiered in Carnegie Hall by the University of Illinois Wind Symphony and performed by the University of North Texas Wind Symphony) Grade 5 (mp3 - 3:35)

If you would like Scott to send you some free demo CDs of these
Concert Band works and/or available Marching Band
arrangements, please contact him at:

Madison Music Works, LLC
c/o Scott Boerma
10911 Charring Cross Circle
Whitmore Lake, MI 48189
Phone & FAX: (734) 449-9866
e-mail: sboerma@voyager.net

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