Alan Scott's music pairs immediacy with complexity, an effort to laminate surface understanding with more structural—sometimes subtextual—notions. The end experience engages the listener both viscerally and tangibly.

His works have been performed at festivals and conventions both nationally and abroad. Recent performances of his music include the 35th Annual National Flute Association Convention (2007), the 30th Florida Flute Association Fair (2006), and the Music06 festival in Cincinnati. Additional chamber music performances include the College Music Society National Conference in 2006, The Florida State University 11th Biennial Festival of New Music, and conferences with the Southeastern Composers' League Forum and the Society of Composers, Inc.

In 2003, he won third prize for composition in the International Guitar Congress-Festival in Corfu, Greece, where his work, In May: After Robert Schumann, was performed. His quartet for guitar, City Songs, commissioned by the Tantalus Quartet, has been performed actively in the United States and Canada and was recently released by the ensemble on commercial recording. Lines and Regressions for string quartet received honorable mention in the Ellen Taaffe Zwilich String Quartet Competition and was performed at the NUMUS 2002 Pan-Am Chamber Music Competition in Ontario, Canada.

Scott is pursuing doctoral work at the University of Texas in Austin, where his teachers in composition have included Dan Welcher, Kevin Puts, and Donald Grantham. He received the M.M. and B.M in composition from Florida State University studying under Ladislav Kubík, Joseph Butch Rovan, and Sheila Forrester.

Scott serves as Webmaster for the College of Fine Arts at Stephen F. Austin State University, where he also teaches classical guitar for the university's Music Preparatory Division. He serves on the Texas Regional Board of the National Association of Composers/USA (NACUSA) and is a member of the Center for the Promotion of Contemporary Composers (CPCC).