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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
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