Scott Perkins

Justin Scott Perkins (born June 25, 1980) is an international prize-winning composer of vocal music, an award-winning scholar, and a professor at California State University, Sacramento. Until 2020, Perkins wrote a balance of sacred and secular music. Notable works include A Word Out of The Sea (2003, winner of a BMI Student Composer Award), The Stolen Child (2006), Charon (2012; libretto by Nat Cassidy; commissioned by the Kennedy Center and Washington National Opera), and A New England Requiem (2016). Since 2020, Perkins's music has been mostly extended, secular, choral works that support and illuminate the words of contemporary authors on themes of social justice, environmentalism, and mental health.