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Frederick Willard

Conductor/Keyboardist Frederick Willard brings an infectious energy to music making in a variety of settings.   He has worked on and off Broadway in such shows as Anything Goes, Meet Me In St. Louis, Lend Me a Tenor, Starmites: The Millenium Edition (directed by author Barry Keating), Pageant  and the cult hit Amphigorey.   He has written arrangements for the late Lionel Hampton, Melba Moore, American Movie Classics and the Hartford Symphony Orchestra.

<>Engagements in 2008 will include conducting Miss Saigon and Titanic at the new Sandler Center for the Performing Arts in Virginia Beach for Virginia Musical Theatre.  Recent conducting credits include The Full Monty, A Chorus Line (Arts Center of Coastal Carolina), and Side by Side by Sondheim (Virginia Music Theatre).  He has also worked regionally for Maine State Music Theatre, Goodspeed Opera House, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, Papermill Playhouse and Syracuse Stage. 

As a writer, Mr. Willard has contributed Fractured Fairy Tales (Composer/Lyricist/Co-Librettist for the Syracuse Stage Children’s Tour),  A Remarkable Story: Voices of Pan Am 103  (Composer—Edinburgh Fringe Festival), as well as published articles on vocal training.  His book “So Whaddaya Got That’s Fast and Funny?”  A Guide to 500 Songs for Music Theatre Performers  is due out in early 2008.

<>Fred has served on the faculties of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and Syracuse University where he staged Jerry’s Girls and Songs for a New World and co-directed the Opera Workshop.  His teachers have included the late Michael Gibson (Orchestration), Paul Nadler (Conducting), Harold Danko and Fred Karpoff (Piano).

10/3/07