22 year old Henry Scamurra is a saxophonist/composer/bandleader based in Kansas City. Currently he is a Charlotte Street Studio Resident writing contemporary improvised music for his band Urban Forum and interdisciplinary performances. Most recently he received his BM from the University of Missouri - Kansas City and was selected for the 2024 Betty Carter Jazz Ahead program at the John F. Kennedy Center.

Raised in St. Joseph, MO, Henry was recognized early on by being accepted into the 2020 Jazz Band of America at 16 years old. He knew he wanted to share music by then and has been scheduling and performing in the Kansas City area for the last six years. As a performer, Henry has played at the Coleman Hawkins Jazz Festival, Prairie Village Jazz Festival, Penn Valley Jazz Festival, Northwest Missouri State Jazz Festival, and was a part of the KCJO's Riff Generation cohort for 2023.

In 2023 Henry formed a new group named Urban Forum which performs his original music and in early 2025 released their first self-titled album Urban Forum which can be listened to on all streaming platforms. The band flows seamlessly between written melody and collective improvising with virtuosic facility and emotional passages. The group has been spreading a message of encouraging their community to create, collaborate, and empathize across the midwest with a tour taking them to Minneapolis, Omaha, Saint Louis, Wichita, St. Joseph, and Kansas City.