Scott Roller was born 1959 in Amarillo, Texas into a family of musicians. Musical experiences from earliest childhood on with violin, piano, cello - later also with guitar, bassoon, synthesizers and percussion

Scott Roller completed cello, composition and university studies from 1976 to 1981 at the University of Texas at Austin, L'Ecole Normale de Musique (Paris) and North Texas State University (Denton), supported