Position:
Professor Emeritus, Composition and Musical Theatre; Producing Artistic Director (retired), Shenandoah Summer Music TheatreEmail: talbert@zhenrenqi.com
Employed Since:
1974–2019Applied Area(s):
Composition
Teaching Area(s):
Musical Theatre
Educational 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
Personal Quote:“Art isn’t easy.” – Stephen Sondheim
Recommended Link(s):
Thomas Albert, Composer
Professional biography, list of works, recordings, publications, press, and contact information for Thomas Albert.