Biography
Born in Detroit and raised in San Marino, CA Scott Liggett is a national Emmy Award-winning music & audio producer who continues to enjoy a long and successful career as a musician, singer/songwriter, music supervisor, arranger, composer, producer, and executive.
Scott received his classical training at the University of the Pacific's Conservatory of Music (1967-1971). He then performed as a singer/songwriter for 5 years in the popular San Francisco group, The Stuart Little Band. Moving to Lake Tahoe in 1974, he played guitar and trumpet in the house orchestras for 2 years at Harrah's Lake Tahoe/Reno and Sahara Lake Tahoe Resort performing with the biggest stars in the world. Still in Lake Tahoe, he founded a live-stage production company and produced original shows for 2-years in Las Vegas, Tahoe, Reno, Dallas, and Los Angeles. In 1980 Scott moved to Los Angeles to begin his career in Hollywood. He studied film scoring at UCLA with Walter Scharf (1981 & 1982).
In 1997 he co-founded Media City Sound in Studio City which celebrated 25 years serving the Hollywood TV & Film community. In 2014 he co-founded LNL Partners, a cinematic graphic novel company producing projects for William Shatner and Stan Lee. In 2017, LNL Partners joined William Shatner and created Shatner Universe LLC, an entertainment development & production company in North Hollywood.
As a musician, Scott has performed shows with artists including Frank Sinatra, David Bowie, Sarah Vaughn, Carmen McRae, Bob Marley, Charlie Rich, Shirley MacLaine, Dean Martin, Don Rickles, The Carpenters, The Smothers Bros, Boz Scaggs, and Van Morrison among others.
As a composer/arranger, Scott's music has been heard in over 1,000 TV shows, over 200 commercials & promos as well as the headline planetarium show "Centered in the Universe" at the Griffith Observatory.
As a music producer, he's worked with all major TV & Media Networks, MGM Grand Las Vegas, Nike, ESPN, NFL Super Bowl, American Greetings, William Shatner, Howard Stern, Robert Goulet, Little Richard, Aaron Sorkin, Martin Short, Netflix's Chelsea Handler shows, and the award-winning planetarium show "Signs of Life" at the Griffith Observatory among others.
Scott is a founding member of the (IDA) International Documentary Association as well as a member of the Television Academy, SAG/AFTRA, and the Society of Composers & Lyricists. In 2020 he received the University of the Pacific's Distinguished Alumni Award in Professional Service. Scott was elected in 2020 to the Board of Regents at the University of the Pacific and its campuses in Sacramento, Stockton and San Francisco.
