Scott Altman

Scott Altman is the newly appointed Executive Director of Miami City Ballet. He has over 25 years of executive nonprofit arts management experience with a proven record of delivering outstanding results in strategic planning, entrepreneurial scaling, and team building. Through successful capital campaigns, operational fundraising, brand elevation, and marketing, he has significantly increased impactful programming, expanded audiences, launched community engagement initiatives, and strengthened cultural institutions around the country.

Prior to joining Miami City Ballet, Scott was President & CEO of Los Angeles Master Chorale (LAMC). During his tenure, LAMC expanded its international profile by touring to Paris, Brussels, and Taipei, as well as securing representation with Opus 3 Artists. The ensemble reached new artistic milestones, including its debut performances at the 97th and 98th Academy Awards, and winning three Grammy Awards for Gabriela Ortiz’s Revolución diamantina (2025) and two additional Grammy Awards for Ortiz’s Yanga (2026), including Best Choral Performance. Both projects were collaborations with the Los Angeles Philharmonic under Gustavo Dudamel. Scott deepened engagement across Los Angeles’ dynamic and diverse communities, introducing a new series of concerts and partnerships with local venues that brought choral music into neighborhoods across the city. He championed an expanded LAMC education footprint with the launch of Youth Chorus LA, an inclusive choral initiative for students in grades 3–7. He also launched an endowment campaign to build a strong foundation for the future and oversaw the organization’s first major office renovation. In January 2025, the Master Chorale’s Lift Every Voice concert marked the first major performance to welcome and honor first responders in the wake of the devastating wildfires.

Prior to joining LAMC, Scott was President & CEO of Cincinnati Ballet. Under his visionary leadership, Cincinnati Ballet more than tripled its assets to over $75M, experienced 67% operational growth, achieved record-breaking ticket sales, launched a new Family Series, and increased Academy and community programs. Accommodating for expansion, Cincinnati Ballet completed a $31M capital campaign resulting in a new state-of-the-art ballet center, the 62,000 sq. ft. Cincinnati Ballet Margaret and Michael Valentine Center for Dance, which had its grand opening in September 2021. Scott has been honored for four consecutive years, 2019–2023, by Cincinnati Magazine in its Cincinnati 300—a compilation of the city’s top 300 executives—and has served as a Trustee on the Board of Dance/USA and as Executive Managers Council Chair; a Trustee on the Board of Creative Ohio; and a member of the Dean’s Advisory Council for Cincinnati Conservatory of Music.

Scott has been a featured guest speaker for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), Americans for the Arts, and the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. He brings over three decades of experience in nonprofit administration and the performing arts. Prior to his roles in administration, Scott enjoyed a 20-year career as a professional opera singer and performed 40 opera roles internationally. He has held leadership positions as General Director at both Arizona Opera and Opera New Jersey, which he co-founded, as well as Executive Director of Ballet West. He is an alumnus of the Manhattan School of Music as well as the State University of New York at Purchase and taught voice for three years at Princeton University. Scott earned a certificate from Stanford University’s Executive Program for Nonprofit Leaders, was a Utah Business 2016 CEO of the Year Honoree, and is a three-time recipient of the New Jersey State Council on the Arts Citation of Excellence Award.