Award-winning music director/performer/educator

Studies:

Music Theory: Manhattan School of Music   

Conducting, Composition, Arranging: Katherine Hoover, Robert Helps

Piano: Isabelle Sant’Ambrogio (Siloti/Listz), Marc Silverman        

Latin Jazz: Charlie Palmieri, Johnny Colon             Latin Percussion: Johnny Almendra

Voice: Henry Rosenblatt (Y. Rosenblatt/Caesari)    Violin: Joseph Sherman

Strings, Flute, Recorder: H. Neubert                        Clarinet: Jerry Kirkbride

New York Premieres:

Katherine Hoover Medieval Suite                                      Master Class, Robert Stallman

Robert Helps In Retrospect                                                Westpark Presbyterian

Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451                                           Wings Theater

Brecht/Eisler The Roundheads and the Pointheads           Classic Theater

Composer:

New Guy (independent film)                                               Diaspora Productions

Bombshell (musical)                                                           Grove Street Playhouse

Safety Zone (musical)                                                          Teatro Quatro

The Barber of Seville  (Beaumarchais)                               Classic Theater

The Canterbury Tales                                                          Royal Buckingham Theater

Arranger:

7 Pieces (orchestration of piano folio by Hoover)              in  progress

Perla del Caribe (commissioned choral and orch. arr.)     Boricua College

In Retrospect (for piano, cello and speaker)                       Westpark

The Judas Caste; A Philosophy of Corpses                         Theater-Studio

For the Love of My Black Woman                                       Ujamaa Black Theater

Pearl and the Pumpkin (CD arr.)                                        Westrax Studio

Beauty and the Beast (operetta)                                           Fantasy Playhouse                                               The Passion of Dracula                                                       Theater Workshop

West Side Story (piano and winds)                                      Arts Center of Coastal Carolina

Seussical (piano and winds)  /span>                                              Ocala Civic Theatre

Conductor/Pianist:

Dream! Dream! Dream!                                                      Palace Theater (Atlantic City)

West Side Story                                                                    Arts Center of Coastal Carolina

Contemporary Operatic Repertoire                                    Opera on the Go

Once on this Island (Award-winning production)               Papermill Playhouse Competition

Handel’s Messiah and various operatic repertoires           Boricua College Chorus

Jazz/Rock/Gospel:

Music Director (over 50 shows, all styles)                         Ward-Lawrence Gallery

Solo Jazz Pianist                                                                  Lennox Lounge Jazz Brunch

Jazz Pianist with Sticks Evans                                            Citicorp Center

Band Leader/Songwriter                                                     System of Touch

Jazz Pianist/Band Leader                                                    Artists Collective Trio

Gospel Pianist                                                                     WestEnd Gospel Choir                                            

1999 Rising Star Award, Paper Mill Playhouse           

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Over 300 theatrical  productions: See reverse side for highlights

Music Director

AOP/Lauren Flanigan…………… The Bard Sings

Arts Center of Coastal Carolina…..West Side Story

Ocala Civic Theatre………………Seussical

Palace Theater (Atlantic City)…….Dream! Dream! Dream! (music of the Everly Brothers)

Theater 10-10…………………….Godspell

Gallery Players……………………My Fair Lady

Courtyard Playhouse……………..Spoon River Anthology

Oasis Theater……………………..Godspell

Theater 58…………………………Working Out with Leona

DeBaun Auditorium………………Once on this Island

Fordham University………………The Wiz

Centenary Stage ………………….Nunsense

Wagner College…………………..Once on this Island

Vanderbilt Players………………..Dracula: the Musical

Grove Street Playhouse…………..The Wild Duck/Macbeth

Riverside Opera Company……….April Flowers: Opera Favorites

Premieres

Symphony Space…………………Perla del Caribe: a danza arr. for Boricua College Chorus/Orchestra         

PanAsian Repertory……………...The Fan Tan King

Wings Theatre……………………Fahrenheit 451

Theater–Studio…………………..The Judas Caste/A Philosophy of Corpses

Classic Theater…………………..The Roundheads and the Pointheads (Brecht – first NY performance)

Fantasy Playhouse……………….Beauty and the Beast (an operetta)

Ujamaa Black Theater…………...For the Love of My Black Woman

Dramatist Guild/Westrax Studio…Pearl and the Pumpkin (Workshop production and cd arrangement)

Wonderland Festival……………..Toby

Composer

Diaspora Productions…………….New Guy (independent film)

Grove Street Playhouse…….……..Bombshell

Teatro Cuatro……………………..Safety Zone

Classic Theater…………………...The Barber of Seville (Beaumarchais)

Royal Buckingham Theater………The Canterbury Tales

Cabaret

Music Theatre Bavaria (Germany)..The Great American Broadway Revue

Forestburgh Playhouse…………….Jerry Herman: Best of Times/Love in the Movies (writer/director)

Duplex……………………………..Andrew Lloyd Webber Unplugged

Don’t Tell Mama………………….Here is the Heart: Ruben Ramos Remembers Nancy LaMott

Dorothy Jones Theater…………….Pieces of Change

Pianist

Carnegie Hall………………………Tribute to Raul Davila

Sylvia Faye Casting………………..Central Park West (television pilot)

Playwrights Horizons………………Urban Blight

Gallery Players…………………….Guys and Dolls

Grove Street Playhouse…………….Queen of Hearts

The Lee Strasberg Institute………...Godspell (emergency sub)

Group Theatre Too…………………Pennies From Heaven (emergency sub)

Neal’s New Yorker…………………Sweet Charity (emergency sub)

Stagedoor…………………………..West Side Story (emergency sub)