Thomas Albert
Professor Emeritus, Composition & Musical Theatre; Producing Artistic Director (retired), Shenandoah Summer Music Theatre
Alternative Email:
thomasalbert@me.comEmployed Since:
1974–2019Educational History:
A.B., Barton College; M.M., D.M.A., University of Illinois
Fields of Expertise:
Composition, Musical Theatre
Professional Highlights:
- Member of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers
- Concert music performed throughout the U.S. and abroad, and recorded by Philadelphia’s Relâche Ensemble, Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, and the Grammy Award-winning Eighth Blackbird
- Composed incidental music and provided sound design for Shenandoah plays, including The Elephant Man, The Crucible, The Diviners, To Kill a Mockingbird, Summer and Smoke, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Metamorphoses, Peer Gynt, Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches, and The Caucasian Chalk Circle
- Music director and conductor for more than 120 musicals and revues for Shenandoah Conservatory and Shenandoah Summer Music Theatre,1984-2019, including most recently (for SSMT) Ragtime, West Side Story, Oklahoma!, and Sweeney Todd; (for Shenandoah Conservatory) City of Angels, She Loves Me, Marat/Sade, American Idiot and The Secret Garden
- Music director and conductor for more than 120 musicals and revues for Shenandoah Conservatory and Shenandoah Summer Music Theatre
- Producing Artistic Director of Shenandoah Summer Music Theatre in 2015-2019
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Quote:
“Art isn’t easy.” – Stephen Sondheim