Scott Coulter
The Chattanooga Symphony & Opera will present its annual holiday family tradition, Home for the Holidays, on Saturday, Dec. 19, at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, Dec. 20, at 3 p.m. at the Tivoli Theatre.
Review for Home for the Holidays:
The CSO’s annual holiday program returns to its roots with traditional holiday fare, featuring special guest vocalist and Chattanooga native Scott Coulter, star of the Emmy-nominated PBS Special A Christmas Carol: The Concert. Mr. Coulter will perform songs such as “The Most Wonderful Time of the Year”, “O Holy Night”, and pieces from A Christmas Carol. Other tunes on the concert include “Sleigh Ride”, “Tennessee Christmas” and our annual sing-a-long.
Sunday’s performance includes a special reading of A Christmas Carol with free hot chocolate for the kids at 2:15 p.m. Santa will be at both performances for pictures.
Tickets start at $24 and are available online at www.chattanoogasymphony.org, by calling 267-8583, or in person at the Tivoli Center, 701 Broad St. Students with a valid student ID and kids 17 and under can attend for $15.
About Scott Coulter
For his work in cabaret, Scott Coulter was awarded both the 2001 Manhattan Association of Cabarets & Clubs Award as well as the 2001 Bistro Award for Outstanding Male Vocalist. He received a 1997 Bistro Award for the revue Get Your Tickets Now! and his debut solo show won the 1998 Award for Best Male Debut. TimeOutNY picked Mr. Coulter’s “Unexpected Songs” as one of the ‘Best of 1999.’ His self-titled debut CD won the 2003 MAC Award for Outstanding Recording and was chosen as the best recording of the year by Scott and Barbara Siegel of TheaterMania and Jeff Rosen of Cabaret Scenes magazine. Mr. Coulter has appeared at Town Hall in the 1949, 1953, 1962 and 1968 editions of the popular “Broadway by the Year” series and can currently be heard on the Bayview recordings of the 1949 and 1953 performances. Other Town Hall performances include “Sentimental Journey: The Songs of World War II,” “From Broadway to Hollywood,” “All That Jazz: A Tribute to Kander & Ebb” and “Broadway Unplugged.”
Since 1997, Mr. Coulter has performed around the country with award-winning songwriting duo Marcy Heisler and Zina Goldrich in their many revues. Currently, he is touring with composer Stephen Schwartz, Liz Callaway and Debbie Gravitte in the revue Stephen Schwartz & Friends. Schwartz has said “one of the best things that can happen to a songwriter is to have his or her material interpreted by Scott Coulter.”
Mr. Coulter toured the country as Jinx in Forever Plaid and performed in the world premiere of Floyd Collins. Regional theatre credits include Into the Woods, In Trousers, Cotton Patch Gospel, Pump Boys and Dinettes and As Bees in Honey Drown. He is a graduate of the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.
The First Tennessee Foundation Pops Series Home for the Holidays concerts are sponsored by Luken Holdings. The concerts will feature Jacob Harrison, conductor; Scott Coulter, vocalist; CSO Chorus with Darrin Hassevoort, director and Metropolitan Bells with Gary Bynum, director.
Jacob Harrison