Alan Scott's music pairs immediacy with complexity, an effort to laminate surface understanding with subtext. 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.

Scott won third prize for composition in the 2003 International Guitar Congress-Festival in Corfu, Greece, where his work, In May: After Robert Schumann, was performed. His quartet for guitar, City Songs, commissioned and recorded by the Tantalus Quartet, received active performances in the United States and Canada, and his string quartet, Lines and Regressions, 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 completed doctoral work at the University of Texas in Austin, where his teachers in composition included Dan Welcher, Donald Grantham, and Kevin Puts. He received the M.M. and B.M in composition from Florida State University studying under Ladislav Kubík, Joseph Butch Rovan, and Sheila Forrester.