Scott Passarella

Scott Passarella is a composer performer and instructor from the great state of California He began performing comedy onstage at CszLA where he also had the opportunity to play live accompaniment for some of their weekly shows Soon after he began work as an accompanist and music director at multiple venues in Los Angeles including UCB Theater The Second City Hollywood iO West and more With a background in piano theater vocal performance and comedy Scott is an accomplished Musical Improv instructor and accompanist He can also play guitar but not nearly as well Scott has worked with Hasbros eOne Cedar Fair Parks Dropouttv Earwolf The Story Pirates and SMOSH including songwriting arrangements instrumental scoring and even a few barbershop quartets Scott is the pianist for Off Book The Improvised Musical Podcast and has composed songs for theatrical musicals comedy revues podcasts and internet shorts He has cowritten roughly fivethousand improvised songs so far When he isnt writing and playing music Scott enjoys spending time with his wife and child they visit MerryGoRounds as often as possible Scott offers private instruction for pianists interested in learning more about improvised accompaniment and coaches both musical and nonmusical improv teams throughout Los Angeles Workshops are occasionally offered and can be booked on request for a minimum of 5 students or more Collaborative songwriting is Scotts specialty and one of his favorite ways to make music He will write you just about any song you like within reason