Double bassist Scott Worthington (b. 1987) is active as a chamber musician, composer, and soloist. He has performed with a wide variety ensembles at festivals around the world such as the Chihuahua International Festival, June In Buffalo, the Lucerne Festival, and the Monterey and Montreal Jazz Festivals. While attending the Eastman School of Music, Worthington regularly performed with Musica Nova and Ossia New Music presenting concerts of 20th century music and premiering numerous works. From 2007-2009 he was invited to perform with the Lucerne Festival Academy working with conductor Pierre Boulez and members of Ensemble Intercontemporian. Desiring to expand the bass repertoire, Worthington frequently commissions works for solo bass and solo bass with electronics. He has premiered solos and concertos written for him by Robert Morris, Juan Trigos, and many of his peers. As a composer, Worthington's music has been commissioned and performed around the United States by big bands, chamber ensembles, soloists, and computers. He completed his undergraduate studies in bass at Eastman with James VanDemark and is a graduate student at the UCSD studying with Mark Dresser.