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résumé

  • MUSIC DIRECTOR
  • Cal State East Bay: Godspell; The Wiz
  • Willows Theatre (regional): Chicago; Smile; Candide; My Fair Lady; Joseph and the Amazing…; Quilters; Grease; Follies
  • Peninsula Civic Light Opera (Broadway by the Bay): Company; My One and Only
  • Presidio Playhouse: How to Succeed…; Company (assistant)
  • Fremont Theatrical Association: The Wizard of Oz
  • Pleasanton Playhouse: Godspell
  • San Francisco State University: The Threepenny Opera; Jacques Brel is Alive and Well…; Guys and Dolls; Godspell; How to Succeed…; L’Histoire du Soldat (Stravinsky)
  • Theatreworks (regional): Into the Woods; Sweeney Todd; And the World Goes Round; Once on This Island;
  • Josephine (with Della Reese); The Human Comedy; Garvey (all as Assistant Music Director)
  • The Don Ellis Project: Self-initiated professional ensemble dedicated toward promoting the music of jazz musician Don Ellis through recording and publishing in cooperation with his estate

  • CONDUCTOR
  • Willows Theatre (regional): Fiddler on the Roof; 1776 (Bay Area Theater Critics Award winner); The Wiz; Merrily We Roll Along; Babes in Arms; Big River; The Spitfire Grill
  • Solano College: Joseph and the Amazing…(studio recording)
  • Berkeley Opera: two original operas (assistant to Jonathan Kuhner)
  • San Francisco State University: 1980 graduation ceremonies; assistant for ½ year each for the Orchestra under Lazlo Varga (NY Philharmonic) and the Symphonic Band under Louis Magor (SF Symphony Chorus Director)
  • Don Ellis Alumni Orchestra: Co-Leader for this modern big band legacy ensemble
  • ORCHESTRATOR/ARRANGER
  • Christianne Noll: orchestral arrangements for Broadway performer and Tony nominated actress, including an arrangement for the New York Pops and the Leonard Bernstein 90th birthday celebration at Carnegie Hall
  • Theatreworks (regional): Everything’s Ducky (Bows music); Another Midsummer’s Night (two tunes); Sunday in the Park With George (chromolume music): Almost September (composed and orchestrated prelude); Josephine (synth programming); The Human Comedy (several arrangements and orchestrations)
  • Willows Theatre (regional): Smile (reduction); Joseph and the Amazing… (reorchestrated entire show and composed new additional dance music); Candide (orchestrated two pieces from piano score and reorchestrated another tune); Quilters (composed and arranged incidental music); Grease (orch./arr. one tune from movie; composed underscore for drive-in movie)
  • Solano College: Joseph and the Amazing… (several tunes transcribed, reorchestrated and arranged)
  • Presidio Playhouse: How to Succeed… (reduction)
  • San Francisco State University: The Threepenny Opera (reorchestrated entire show); Jacques Brel… (reorchestrated many tunes)
  • Daniel Kobialka: Orchestrator/arranger for ongoing series of music therapy recordings for this SF Symphony violinist
  • Significant Misc. Projects: Full symphony orchestrations of Ravel’s Gaspard de la Nuit; Prokofiev’s A Diabolical Suggestion; Mozart’s Rondo Alla Turca, big band arrangement (~20 min.) of Caravan
  • Miscellaneous: Various pieces for symphonic band; big band; chorus; marching band; jazz combos (8–10 pieces); chamber ensemble; harp quintet; string quartet; student films; campus radio jingles

  • MISC. PERFORMER CREDITS
  • National Touring Company, "My Fair Lady" in San Francisco (clarinet)
  • National Touring Company, "The Prom" in San Francisco (clarinet, bass clarinet, tenor and bari sax, flute)
  • National Touring Company, "Frozen" in San Francisco (piccolo, flute, clarinet, soprano sax, alto sax)
  • National Touring Company, "Company" in San Francisco (clarinet, tenor sax)
  • California Symphony Pops (guest artists: Ray Charles, Manhattan Transfer)
  • Oakland / East Bay Symphony (inc. guest artists: The Temptations, Kevin Spacey
  • Isaac Hayes, concert performance of Follies)
  • San Francisco Symphony Pops
  • Napa Symphony (inc. guest Johnny Mathis)
  • Sacramento Symphony (inc. guest Beatlemania)
  • San Francisco Symphony New Year's Eve with the Peter Mintun Orchestra
  • Santa Cruz Symphony
  • Monterey Symphony
  • Santa Rosa Symphony
  • West Bay Opera
  • West Edge Opera
  • Don Ellis Alumni Band
  • The Phantom of the Opera, 30th anniversary production of Dames at Sea
  • Peter Mintun Orchestra
  • Beach Blanket Babylon
  • Lamplighters Music Theater
  • 42nd St. Moon
  • Woodminster Summer Theater
  • American Musical Theater of San Jose

  • PUBLICATIONS
  • Music Theatre International: Complete resetting of the Piano-Vocal score of Stephen Sondheim’s Anyone Can Whistle
  • Don Ellis: Pieces of Eight – Wounded Bird Records: WOU 6000 – Executive Producer, layout coordination, liner notes
  • Milcho Leviev: Multiple Personalities – Mighty Quinn Records: MQP1109 – Executive Producer, layout coordination, liner notes
  • Don Ellis: Soaring – MPS/jazzclub: 06025 1785959 – liner notes
  • Don Ellis: Shock Treatment – KOCH Jazz: KOC-CD-8590 – liner notes
  • Don Ellis: Live at Montreux – KOCH Jazz: KOC-CD-51410 – liner notes
  • Don Ellis Tribute Orchestra: Bulge - Live – Schagerl Records: SC2-13-01 – liner notes
  • Don Ellis: Strawberry Soup; Loss; Star Children; K.C. Blues; Over the Rainbow; Loose as a Goose; After an Autumn Rain; Open Wide, Invincible, Sunny's Day; Hank Levy: Whiplash; Milcho Leviev: Wolfgang For All Seasons; Sam Falzone: Without Joan – UNC Jazz Press – Editor-in-Chief, annotator, layout, design, preparation

  • PRODUCER
  • Daniel Kobialka: Co-producer for ongoing series of music therapy recordings for this SF Symphony violinist
  • The Don Ellis Project: Solo jazz piano recording of Milcho Leviev: Multiple Personalities – Mighty Quinn Records; Don Ellis: Pieces of Eight – Wounded Bird Records
  • Don Ellis: The Lost Tapes Volume 3 - Sleepy Night Records (Co-Producer)
DON ELLIS THE LOST TAPES VOL 3 - Produced by Nick Di Scala and Gary Gillies, Summer 2021
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