Mr. Yoo served as Associate Conductor of the Dallas Symphony for the 1999-2000 season, after serving one season as the orchestra’s Assistant Conductor. He made his Dallas Symphony subscription debut in November 2000 with bassist Edgar Meyer, and made his first appearances with the Indianapolis Symphony in August 2001.

An exponent of new music, Mr. Yoo has introduced a newly-commissioned work on each of Metamorphosen’s subscription concerts. In the last eight seasons, Mr. Yoo has premiered 42 works by 20 composers. CD releases with Metamorphosen include vocal works of Earl Kim with soprano Benita Valente for New World Records and a disc of English works for Bose. Scott Yoo and Metamorphosen have also recorded three discs for Archetype Records, including the Serenades of Tchaikovsky, Dvorak and Grieg (September 1997); premiere recordings of John Harbison’s chamber orchestra works with soprano Dawn Upshaw and oboist Peggy Pearson (September 1998); and the Eighth and Eleventh Sinfonias of Mendelssohn (August 1999).

The 2002-03 season included appearances as conductor with the American Composers Orchestra, the Charlotte Symphony, the Tulsa Philharmonic, the Delaware Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre de Bretagne (France), and the Wheeling Symphony in addition to his ongoing series with the Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra in Boston.

He made his conducting debuts with the Utah Symphony, the Oregon Symphony, the Kansas City Symphony, the Victoria (British Columbia) Symphony, the San Luis Obispo Mozart Festival Orchestra, and the Honolulu Symphony Orchestra all in the 2003-04 season.

He lead first appearances this past season (2004-05) at the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, the New World Symphony, the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, the Colorado Symphony, the Phoenix Symphony, the Omaha Symphony, the Nashville Symphony, the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra and the Toledo Symphony with a return to the Kansas City Symphony as well. Thus summer he makes his first appearance as violinist and conductor with the San Francisco Symphony alongside concerts with the orchestras of Indianapolis and Utah.