About Scott
"I found your presentation seamless, compelling, and perhaps most importantly never ponderous or pedantic. And your ability to integrate the visuals and the music made this prose writer jealous as hell. I thoroughly enjoyed your presentation."
– Jonathan Gould, Author, Can't Buy Me Love
Scott Freiman may be the only person to have sold out Carnegie Hall and been a Finalist for Ernst and Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year. He is also a leading expert on the music of the Beatles who has appeared in several films and TV series about the Fab Four.
Scott is the creator of Deconstructing The Music, a series of unique multimedia lectures on the songwriting and production techniques of musicians. He has presented his lectures to sold-out audiences at theaters nationwide and has spoken at colleges, universities, and corporations, such as Pixar, Google, and Facebook. In the Fall of 2012, he taught a semester course on “The Beatles In The Studio” at Yale University. He co-hosts the monthly Fab Four Master Class with fellow musicologist Kenneth Womack with whom he leads annual Beatles-themed trips to Liverpool and London. Scott also writes about music and "deconstructs" songs and bands for Culture Sonar (culture sonar.com).
Scott is featured in eleven Deconstructing the Beatles films currently showing in theatres and available on DVD and streaming. His six part series, Deconstructing the Beatles, premiered on Maryland Public Television in February 2024 and will be airing on PBS stations nationwide in early 2025. His first non-Beatles “deconstruction” (on Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon) premiered in August 2024.
Scott was the co-founder and CEO of Qwire Inc., a technology company creating software to integrate the work of everyone involved with music for picture. The company’s software has been used to streamline music tracking and rights management for large studios and music companies, such as NBCUniversal and SESAC.
Scott was a co-founder of Credit Management Solutions, Inc. (CMSI), a leading financial software company where he served as CEO. A Finalist for Ernst & Young’s Maryland Entrepreneur of the Year, Scott helped lead CMSI’s successful public offering and orchestrated the sale of CMSI to the First American Corporation.
In 2001, after fifteen years of running a public company, Scott embarked on a new career as a composer, music producer, and studio owner. His first film scores, written within months of leaving CMSI, were performed by an orchestra live with picture at Lincoln Center in New York. Scott composed music for more than ten films, and contributed music to the Emmy®-award winning eleven-part BBC/Discovery series Life. He also acted as sound editor and mixer on many films, including the first 3D made-for-television film, David Attenborough’s Flying Monsters, and the award-winning films Encounter Point and Budrus. In September of 2005, his original music was performed at a sold out Carnegie Hall concert that featured a 17-piece orchestra, a children’s choir, and a George Bush impersonator.
Scott is the former owner of Second Act Studio, a state-of-the-art music and video studio for composition, recording, and production designed by renowned studio architect, John Storyk. Second Act Studio played host to a wide range of musicians -- from children to Grammy winners, such as bassist John Patitucci and the Tokyo String Quartet. Scott produced, arranged, and played keyboards for many artists and served as producer on recordings recorded and mixed at Second Act. Scott also created courses for MacProVideo.com, providing online video training in professional software, and taught composing and music technology to children and adults.
Scott holds a B.S. in Computer Science and Music from Yale University and a Masters of Music Composition from New York University. He is married to Allison Fine, the President of Every.org and an acclaimed author and speaker on AI and philanthropy. He has three children, Max, Zack, and Jack, who are all doing great things and (most importantly) no longer on his payroll.