Scott Hanoian is active as a conductor, organist, lecturer, continuo artist, accompanist, choral adjudicator, and guest clinician. He is the Associate for Liturgy and Worship and Director of Music and Organist at Christ Church Grosse Pointe, Michigan, where he leads the worship department, directs the church’s four choirs, and oversees the yearly concert series. He is also the Music Director and Conductor of the University Musical Society Choral Union, where he conducts and prepares the Grammy Award-winning chorus in performances with the world’s finest orchestras and conductors. Choruses prepared by Mr. Hanoian have sung under the batons of Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Leonard Slatkin, Ivan Fischer, Dennis Russell Davies, Osmo Vänskä, Kenneth Kiesler, and Peter Oundjian. Mr. Hanoian has conducted the Ann Arbor Symphony in performances of Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem, Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis, and annual performances of Handel’s Messiah.

As an organist and conductor, Mr. Hanoian has performed concerts throughout the US and has led choirs on trips to Great Britain, Ireland, Italy, France, and Spain. Most recently, Mr. Hanoian led the Christ Church Choirs during weeklong residencies at Wells Cathedral, York Minster, Durham Cathedral, Salisbury Cathedral, and Westminster Abbey.

Mr. Hanoian has served on the faculties of Wayne State University and Oakland University and was the artistic director and conductor of the Oakland Choral Society from 2013–2015.

Before moving to Grosse Pointe, Mr. Hanoian was the Assistant Organist and Assistant Director of Music at Washington National Cathedral, where he played the organ for many services, including the funerals of Presidents Ronald Reagan and Gerald Ford.

Mr. Hanoian has recorded the complete organ works of Johannes Brahms for the JAV label.