Sunday In A Park... @ Guthrie Theater During this summer, I am playing “Sunday in the park with George” at the Guthrie Theater. It's an intriguing and beautiful show by Stephen Sondheim. You will love the show. So well acted & sang and accompanied by gorgeous orchestration by 13 piece orchestra. music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim book by James Lapine directed by Joseph Haj June 17 - August 20, 2017 Scenes from Istanbul (Image) Siege of Temesvár,1552 Between the shows, I am also busy editing a piece I wrote last summer called "Scenes from Istanbul.
I am so thrilled that my friends and amazing pianists Pinar Basgove and Susana Pinto will be performing the piece this fall at Antonello Hall, MacPhail Center for Music. Thanksgiving Concert at Nativity Lutheran Church on November 23Date:November 23 (Wednesday) Time: 7:00 pm Place:Nativity Lutheran Church - 3312 Silver Lake Rd NE, Minneapolis, MN 55418 Here is one of the songs I wrote. "The Doors of Love are Always Open" Hope you enjoy Some Enchanted Evenings ~ 🎵 I hope you are still enjoying the summer. I have been spending most of my summer at the Guthrie Theater, playing in Rogers and Hammerstein’s “South Pacific”, directed by Joseph Haj. It is running from June 19 to August 28th. Lovely show – please do come! I'll be conducting the last week!  June 18 - August 28, 2016 on the Guthrie Theater Wurtele Thrust Stage Here is my arrangement of "Someone to Watch Over Me” Music by George Gershwin, Lyrics by Ira Gershwin from the musical "Oh, Kay" (1926) . This is a teaching piece that I wrote for a Jazz lesson.
Sheet Music is available from HERE (click).  I am playing with the wonderful violinist Elise Parker. Together we are performing with David Gonzalez and his fabulous show "The Frog Bride" at the Children's Theatre. Frog Bride features all 5 movements of Prokofiev's music. They're really beautiful. Some are filled with jazz-like harmonies, some are longing for home, some are like a sun-filled day. It's amazing writing really especially how easily they seem to fit into the Frog Bride story. They're short pieces and the kids are totally enthralled with the music and with the amazing David Gonzalez. He magically opens a portal of energy creating a rich imaginative world filled with myriads of colorful characters. It's high art and it reaches all ages. Please come if you can!
Date: January 12 - February 28, 2016. Place: Cargill Stage, Children's Theater, Minneapolis, MN Storyteller / Producer: David Gonzalez Composer: Sergei Prokofiev / Daniel Kelly Violin: Elise Parker Piano/Keyboard: Gregory Theisen UPDATE! I am also playing for Nautilus Music Theater - Rough Cuts "Bold In Their Breeches" on February 1st & 2nd. A new musical work-in-progress based on the true adventures of 18th-century female pirates Anne Bonny and Mary Read, featuring Nautilus performers Laurel Armstrong, Ann Michels, Laurie Flanigan Hegge, Joel Liestman, Eric Morris, and Kym Chambers Otto, with musical direction by Greg Thiesen!
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 “Busking on the Mall” is an Overture from the music theater project “The Ballad of Nicollet Mall."
While strolling down the mall, you will hear the busyness of the city from the street vendors waving discounts as fast as shoppers seeking them, the preachers pounding the book of Revelations, the beboppers lamenting lost loves, the fiddler players spreading joy while the african drummers beat on their plastic pails in loud pursuit of something that nobody is certain of. All in all it is an exciting peregrination.
 I will be playing in the Minnesota Orchestra Disney In Concert: Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas on the evening of the Halloween. "It was late one fall in Halloween land And the air had quite a chill Against the moon a skeleton sat Alone upon a hill" That poem is the genesis of filmmaker Tim Burton’s macabre mashup of Halloween and Christmas, a movie favorite since 1993. Place: Orchestra Hall, 1111 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis, MN 55403 Conductor: Sarah Hicks Date: October 30 (Friday) & 31 (Saturday) * Illustration = Buena Vista Concerts, a division of ABC Inc. © All rights reserved
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