Boston
Musical
Theater
Musical
Theater
Historical Musical Theater
Charlotte Kaufman, Director
Charlotte Kaufman is the Founder and Director of BOSTON MUSICAL THEATER. Ms. Kaufman is on the faculty of New England Conservatory Continuing Education Division and teaches piano and harpsichord. A Boston native, educated at Girls' Latin School, Smith College, and with an advanced degree in Piano from Boston University, she has always gravitated to music as a major concentration and later as a career. She performed professionally as a duo pianist in the late 60s. The next decade was concentrated on early music performance which developed into the editing and production of ballad operas at the Museum of Fine Arts on their annual performing series from 1981-1987. A by-product of these years was the editing of two published chamber operas, The Doctor of Alcantara by Julius Eichberg 1994, a Boston operetta in a facsimile edition, and Le Devin du village by Jean Jacques Rousseau, in a critical performing edition 1998. In the 90s Friends of Dr. Burney was renamed Boston Musical Theater to reflect the expansion of the repertoire into the 19th and 20th centuries.
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Mara Bonde has been critically acclaimed for an electric stage presence and sweet purity of tone. Mara has performed in diverse venues throughout the United States and traveled to Brussels and Moscow with Boston Musical Theater. She is featured on BMT's CDs, We'll Meet Again: The Music of World War II, and All That Jazz. A National Semi-Finalist in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, Mara has sung with Opera Omaha, Glimmerglass Opera, Utah Opera, Opera Company of North Carolina, National Opera Company (Raleigh), and the Lake George Opera Festival, in works ranging from Mozart to Mollicone, and Sullivan to Sondheim. This summer she sings the title role in "Naughty Marietta" and Johanna in "Sweeney Todd" with Light Opera Oklahoma.
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David Ripley is heard widely in oratorio, recital, chamber opera, early and contemporary programs, and cabaret. With BMT, David has performed in Paris, Brussels, Moscow, and St. Petersburg. He was featured in Peter Childs' one act opera, Embers, and was highly praised by Richard Dyer in the Boston Globe. David has appeared on numerous occasions with the Aston Magna and New England Bach Festivals, and with the Berkshire Bach Society. He has recorded two solo CDs, A New Season and Ne Point Passer, as well as All That Jazz with BMT. In addition to his performing activities, he is Associate Professor of Music at the University of New Hampshire, where he teaches voice and directs the opera workshop.
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A graduate of Oberlin and New England Conservatory, Dan Loschen teaches jazz and classical piano at The Rivers Music School and has performed with many Boston area jazz luminaries. Dan's first CD, Head Games, was released in 1997, featuring original compositions. He is the leader of his group, The Postmodern Jazz Quartet, and has accompanied vocalists in jazz and cabaret settings. Dan joined BMT's 2004 tour to Russia.
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Bertram Lehmann possesses a flexible and fluid style of drumming within a multitude of musical contexts including Jazz, Latin, World Music and Classical. He continues to perform with many acclaimed artists in Boston, New York, and elsewhere, and has toured in India, Spain, Ghana, Ecuador, Mexico, and with BMT's Russian trips. He is Assistant Professor of Percussion at Berklee College of Music.
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Rich Appleman is chairman of the Bass Department at Berklee College of Music. He is author of educational materials for the college, and articles for Bass Player Magazine and the International Society of Bassists. Rich has played in the pit orchestra for many musical theater productions, as well as in concerts in Italy, Brazil, Argentina, Belgium, France, Russia, Mexico. He tours regularly with BMT. In April 2005, he performed with Bernadette Peters in Symphony Hall, Boston.
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Introducing Jennifer Sheehan, a recent graduate of The Juilliard School, where she portrayed Pamina in the school's production of Mozart's opera "The Magic Flute", and Angel More in Virgil Thomson's "The Mother of Us All."
Jennifer's passion is singing music from The Great American Song Book, musical theatre, and jazz standards. In May 2007, she will join Andrea Marcovicci, Gregory Harrison, and Klea Blackhurst in a tribute to the lyricist, Leo Robin, at the 92nd Street Y Concert Series in New York.
Jennifer has performed as a soloist in the Mabel Mercer Foundation's Cabaret Conventions in New York. In October 2006, she was honored by that organization with The Julie Wilson Award for promising talent in the field of cabaret.
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A realized vision. From dance halls to Carnegie Hall.
For a young lad growing up in the country outside of Manitowoc, Wisconsin it was only a dream.... It started at an early age. At three Allen was composing waltzes and playing the piano by ear for family and friends.
At five he began studying with a jazz pianist. Although always a jazz player, classical music took on a special focus in high school. Recipient of a privately funded full scholarship to the Lawrence Conservatory of Music, he later earned the first Doctor of Musical Arts degree granted by Catholic University of America.
With a myriad of concerts, commissions and scholarly accomplishments in his distinguished professional career, Allen is Professor of Music at Mount Holyoke College and still a superb jazz pianist!!
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