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Rob Kapilow's What Makes It Great Music of William Finn (Sally), The Mistress Cycle City Christmas in such venues as The Brian Greene’s multimedia theater (Tess) and The Prince & The Pauper (Mary Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts, 54 piece, Light Falls in New York and in Rob Kapilow’s Canty) . At Carnegie Hall she has appeared Below, New Jersey Performing Arts Center, Australia (March 2016). He starred as “Dan” in Cole Porter’s Jubilee, South Pacific in Concert Dallas’ Horchow Center, The Jacob Javits in the Pulitzer winning musical, Next (starring Reba McEntire) , and Sondheim: A Center, Le Chat Noir, The Allen Room, Jazz To Normal at Baltimore/Centerstage; Frank What Makes it Great? Tribute, (all for PBS). Performing with the New at Lincoln Center, The Zipper Theatre, London and Neil Berger’s A Night In The Old York City Ballet at Lincoln Center and Merkin Hall, Symphony Space, Joe’s Pub, Marketplace in São Paulo; Tectonic Theatre Tokyo, she was featured soloist, singing Birdland, and Williamstown’s 62 Center. Her Company’s The Laramie Project Cycle at Theater Songs of Leonard Bernstein Somewhere for their performances of West recording credits include Sweet Little Devil, BAM/Harvey Theatre; Fred Hersch’s Side Story Suite. Wilfert has performed See Rock City, Kitty’s Kisses, New York City multimedia jazz-theatre piece, My Coma throughout the country, including shows at Christmas, Make Me A Song, Assassins, King Dreams in NYC, Berlin and San Francisco; the LaJolla Playhouse, Cincinnati David, The Prince & the Pauper, A Christmas and Merrily We Roll Along at City Center WHEN: VENUE: ® Playhouse, Baltimore Center Stage, Finger Survival Guide. Her television credits include Encores! . His regional credits include WEDNESDAY, BiNG FEBRUARY 7, 2018 CONCERT HALL Lakes Musical Theatre Festival, Pittsburgh The Ameri-cans for Comedy Central, Loving productions at Center Theatre Group/LA, 7:30 PM Civic Light Opera, Maltz Jupiter Theatre, for ABC and Law & Order Criminal Intent for Guthrie Theater, Yale Rep, McCarter New Haven’s Schubert Theatre, Barrington NBC and the Submissions Only. Follow on Theater, Old Globe, Goodspeed Musicals, Stage, Goodspeed Musicals, Hartford Twitter @SallyWilfert, Instagram @salgalwilfert TheatreWorks/Palo Alto, La Jolla Theatreworks, The Fulton Opera House, www.sallywilfert.com Playhouse, George Street Playhouse, Connecticut Grand Opera, and The Perseverance Theater, O’Neill Theatre Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati in such Michael Winther Center and Sundance Theatre Lab. Recent shows as The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas Acclaimed by Stephen Holden of The New film credits include The Avengers, Jumper, (Mona), Chasing Rainbows: The Road to Oz York Times as “a theater singer of unusual The Break-Up, Mr. & Mrs. Smith. Television (World Premiere, Ethel Gumm), Damn Yankees refinement” with “a voice that traverses credits include The Blacklist, Mysteries of (Meg), Kiss Me Kate (Lily/Kate), The Light in the genres,” Michael Winther has appeared Laura , Boardwalk Empire , Hostages , Piazza (Margaret), Footloose (Ethel), LMNOP with Robert Kapilow in What Makes It Leverage and Law & Order. Other concert (World Premiere, Georgeanne), Little Miss Great? at major venues across the country, credits include four appearances as part of Sunshine (World Premiere), Marry Me A Little, celebrating the songs of Sondheim, Arlen, Lincoln Center’s American Songbook series Les Miserables (Mdme. Thernardier), The Last Gershwin, Porter, Bernstein, and Rodgers. (William Finn’s Songs of Innocence and Five Years (Cathy), Amadeus (Constanze), Experience, The Songs of Fred Hersch, and Enchanted April (Rose), Into the Woods (The Michael has appeared on Broadway two consecutive years of his solo Witch), The Threepenny Opera (Polly Peachum), in 33 Variations, Mamma Mia!, 1776, Artist evening, Hear & Now: Contemporary Lyricists Elegies: A Song Cycle (Woman 1) to name a Descending a Staircase and Damn Yankees. and Composers ); Broadway Cabaret, few. Sally has appeared with Rob Kapilow He recently completed the national tour of Broadway By The Year and Broadway in What Makes it Great? in major venues the 2015 Tony Award-winning Best Musical, Unplugged series’ at Town Hall; concerts around the country, celebrating the songs FUN HOME . Prior to that, he collaborated with the New Voices Collective at Symphony of Arlen, Gershwin, Cole Porter, Sondheim with multiple Grammy-nominee, jazz Space as well as with The New York Pops and Bernstein. Other concert credits include composer Fred Hersch and poet Mary Jo at Carnegie Hall and the New York Sally Wilfert: It’s Time, American Songbook: Salter in the premiere of a new song Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall. He has Rebecca Luker, William Finn’s Songs of cycle, Rooms of Light for Peak Performance performed various solo evenings of music Innocence and Experience, Broadway in South at Montclair University . He portrayed Albert at 54 Below, Joe’s Pub, Birdland, The Africa, Jeff Blumenkrantz Songbook, New York Einstein in author and theoretical physicist Metropolitan Room and Ars Nova. 4 Artists Biographies A frequent guest speaker for corporate to great acclaim. He was also the first Festival” and premieres of works for the events, museums, business groups, composer to be granted the rights to set Dr. American Repertory Theater. foundations, hospitals, law schools, math Seuss’ words to music, and his Green Eggs He is the conductor/creative director of Rob Kapilow, pianist and commentator Rob Kapilow departments and conferences, Rob Kapilow and Ham has been called “the most What Makes It Great? for the Celebrity Series Sally Wilfert and Michael Winther, vocalists For over 20 years Rob Kapilow has brought is constantly finding connections and successful piece written for families this of Boston, New York’s Merkin Concert Hall, the joy and wonder of classical music— intersections between music and the half century.” A new CD featuring Nathan Washington Performing Arts, the Cerritos and unraveled some of its mysteries—to outside world, making art essential to Gunn and isabel Leonard in two more of Center for the Arts, and the Toronto audiences of all ages and backgrounds. everyday life. his popular FamilyMusik compositions, Symphony. This season he begins a new Program Characterized by his unique ability to Chris van Allsburg’s Polar Express and Dr. series at the Scottsdale Center for the create an “aha” moment for his audiences Kapilow’s popularity and appeal are Seuss’s Gertrude McFuzz, was released in Performing Arts. He has been Theater Songs of Leonard Bernstein and collaborators, whatever their level of reflected in notable invitations and November 2014. conductor/director of FamilyMusik for New musical sophistication or naiveté, Kapilow’s achievements: this past season he York’s Lincoln Center and 92nd Street Y, co- “I Can Cook Too” from On the Town (1944) work brings music into people’s lives: appeared six times on the PBS NewsHour Numerous major awards and grants have director of the Rutgers SummerFest Lyrics and music by Leonard Bernstein opening new ears to musical experiences with segments ranging from “Somewhere marked Kapilow’s career. He won first place Festival, assistant conductor of the Opera and helping people to listen actively rather Over The Rainbow” to Brahms and Mozart. in the Fontainebleau Casadesus Piano Company of Boston, Music Director of the than just hear. As the Boston Globe said, “A Little Bit In Love” from Wonderful Town (1953) He appeared on NBC’s Today Show in Competition and was the second-place touring company Opera New England, and “it’s a cheering thought that this kind of Lyrics by Adolf Green and Betty Comden, music by Leonard Bernstein conversation with Katie Couric; he winner of the Antal Dorati Conductor’s conductor of the Kansas City Symphony’s missionary enterprise did not pass from presented a special What Makes It Competition with the Detroit Symphony. As summer FamilyFare program. He was also this earth with Leonard Bernstein. Rob “Something’s Coming” from West Side Story (1957) Great? event for broadcast on PBS’s Live a composer, Kapilow was a featured on music director of the Yale Symphony Kapilow is awfully good at what he does. Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, music by Leonard Bernstein From Lincoln Center; and he has written Chicago Public Radio’s prestigious Orchestra for five seasons. We need him.” two highly popular books published by “Composers in America” series and is a “Maria” from West Side Story (1957) Wiley/Lincoln Center: All You Have To Do Is recipient of an Exxon “Meet-the-Composer” At the age of 19, Kapilow interrupted his Kapilow’s range of activities is astonishingly Lyics by Stephen Sondheim, music by Leonard Bernstein Listen which won the PSP Prose Award for grant and numerous ASCAP awards. academic work at Yale University to study broad, including his What Makes It Best Book in Music and the Performing with the legendary Nadia Boulanger. Two Great? presentations (now for over 20 “Tonight” from West Side Story (1957) Arts, and What Makes It Great (2011), the first Kapilow has conducted many of North years later, after graduating Phi Beta seasons in New York and Boston), his family Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, music by Leonard Bernstein book of its kind to be especially designed America’s finest orchestras including the Kappa from Yale, he continued his studies compositions and Family Musik events, his for the iPad with embedded musical Philadelphia Orchestra, the National at the Eastman School of Music. After Citypieces, and residencies with institutions examples. A documentary film, named Symphony, the Toronto, St. Louis, Atlanta, graduating from Eastman, he returned to The program will last approximately 90 minutes and will be performed without as diverse as the National Gallery of Summer Sun, Winter Moon after Kapilow’s and Detroit Symphonies and the St. Paul Yale, where he was assistant professor for intermission. The performance will be followed by a Q&A with the artists. Canada and Stanford University.
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