Mandy Mikita Scott is in her 21^st year of teaching, and her sixteenth at her alma mater, Rockford High School (Rockford, Michigan), where she is Director of Choirs and teaches around 125 students daily in four ensembles. She feels privileged to be on a team with her husband, Jed Scott, who directs the Rockford Aces and volunteers much of his time to support the choir program. 

Mandy studied at Western Michigan University with Joe Miller and Steve Zegree and received her Master of Music in Choral Conducting from the University of Miami with Jo-Michael Scheibe. She is grateful that her choirs have had the opportunity to perform in Carnegie Hall, the National Cathedral, the World Choir Games in Riga, Latvia (where they earned Gold Medals in their categories) and St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome, Italy. Most recently, in 2023 she conducted a concert tour of Spain with the Rockford Choirs with sold-out concerts in Barcelona, Valencia, and Madrid.

Her choirs have also performed at both the ACDA-Michigan Fall Conference and the Michigan Music Conference. She has conducted an ensemble at the MSVMA All-State Ensemble Recital eight times.

The Rockford Choirs actively commission new choral works, and under her direction, the choirs have commissioned over 30 compositions and arrangements, including works from Z. Randall Stroope, Alice Parker, Andrea Ramsey, Michael McGlynn, Anders Edenroth, and many others.

Mandy was the Michigan High School SSAA State Honors Choir conductor in 2014, and has served terms on both the MSVMA Full Board as High School Repertoire chair

and Board of Directors as the Director of Sight Reading and Music Selection. She has also served on the ACDA-Michigan Board.

Mandy was recognized as Eric Whitacre Teacher of the Week in December, 2019. She is humbled to have four times been named as a finalist for MSVMA Teacher of the Year. She is proudest that her former students continue to make music and breathe kindness into the world.

Most of all, Mandy has had fabulous choral opportunities in her career thanks to her incredible husband and family. Together they have spent time with legendary choral composer Alice Parker on her farm in Massachusetts, hosted The Real Group in Rockford, and written poetry with her youngest, Daniella, for an Andrea Ramsey composition. Mandy and Jed have three children, Owen, Julian, and Daniella (who were all singing in MSVMA Honors Choirs this year at MMC!)