Samuel Bagala

Location:

New York City
United States 10036

Contact:

sam.bagala@gmail.com

Additional Info:

Samuel Thorne Bagala

samuelbagala.com

Experience

ELF - The Musical - Broadway National Tour (2014)
Music Director, Conductor, Piano

Maine State Music Theater
Godspell (Bway Revival),Hair, Spring Awakening (Regional Premiere), RENT (Regional Premiere), Alice & Wonderland, Sleeping Beauty, Beauty & The Beast, A Year With Frog & Toad, Schoolhouse Rock Live!
Music Director, Piano/Keyboards, Pit Conductor

Dreamgirls, Les Miserables, Gypsy, Mary Poppins (Keys 1, regional premiere), A Chorus Line, Legally Blonde, Sunset Boulevard, 42nd Street, Xanadu (Conductor/Keys 1), Annie, The Marvelous Wonderettes, The Wiz, Crazy For You (w/Tony Yazbeck & Jessica Lee Goldyn), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (w/Marc Jacoby), My Fair Lady, Chicago (w/Nikki Snelson), Spamalot (Regional Premiere)
Assistant Music Director, Piano/Keyboards

Boston Conservatory
NOT DEAD (World Premiere)
Music & Lyrics by Samuel Thorne Bagala

Cabaret
Music Director, Piano

Thoroughly Modern Millie
Pianist

The Full Monty (with Laura Marie Duncan)
Assistant Music Director, Rehearsal Pianist, Keyboard

Local Theater
The Last Five Years (Waynflete High School), Beauty & The Beast, The King & I (Lyric Music Theater), Once On This Island, Godspell, Crazy For You, A Christmas Carol, Disney Through The Years, A Christmas Carol (Community Little Theater), The Music Man (Portland Players), RENT (Stages: Academy for the Performing Arts), Cinderella, Thoroughly Modern Millie (Gray New-Gloucester High School)
Music Director, Piano/Keyboards, Pit Conductor

Accompanying
Boston Conservatory Staff Accompanist, Boston Conservatory Orchestra, BoCo String Ensemble, BoCo Wind Ensemble, BoCo Gala Fundraising Event, Maine State Music Theater Fall Fundraiser, Maine State Music Theater Auditions, Maine National Association of Teachers of Singing Competition, Musica Del Fillia Singing Competition, Sacopee Valley Performing Arts, Belgraphica Violin & Piano Studio

Awards
Emerging Artist of the Year (2012)- WISE Foundation, 1st place - Bangor Symphony High School Concerto Competition, 1st place – Ralph Gould Award, 1st place – Plymouth State University Contemporary Piano Festival, 1st place- Bagaduce Composer’s Competition, 1st place – Westminster Choir College Piano Scholarship Competition, 2nd place – Lucinda Wright Piano Award, 2nd place – Ocy Downs Piano Competition, 2nd place – Pine Tree Piano Competition, Finalist – BMI John Lennon Scholarship

Training
The Boston Conservatory (2010-2014)
Summa Cum Laude
B.M in Piano Performance, Piano with Jonathan Bass,
Eleonora Perpessa-Mahnken Scholar,
Pi Kappa Lambda honor society.

Berklee College of Music (2010-)
Jazz Piano with Steve Heck, Musical Theater Writing with Michael Wartofsky, Musical Theater Arranging & Orchestration with Jeri Sykes.

New England Conservatory Preparatory School (2009-2010)
Piano with Mana Tokuno

Manduca Music
Piano with Elizabeth Manduca for 8 years

Westminster Choir College
Solo Pianist Program, Piano with Ena Barton

Maine Jazz Camp
Studies with Frank Carlberg (Berklee College of Music and NEC)

University of Southern Maine (2006-2009)
Early Studies student

Other
Hannah & The Moose (Berklee College of Music)
1st place in the Berklee Battle of the Bands
Piano, Keyboards, Composer

Masterclasses
George Lopez (Bowdoin College), Edmund Battersby (Jacobs School of Music), Michael Lewin (Boston Conservatory), Bruce Brubaker (New England Conservatory), Seymour Bernstein (NYU), Mark Janas (Manhattan School of Music), Ya-Fei Chuang (Boston Conservatory)

Rock4Relief (Hurricane Katrina Benefit)
Band Coordinator, Event Scheduler

Small Point Summer School
Music Director

Skills
Composing, Arranging, Sight-reading, Keyboard Programming (Mainstage, Kurzweil keyboards), Orchestrating, Music Recording, Music Software (Finale), Accordion, Bass Guitar, Tenor, Cocktail Pianist.

Fees

Contact for details.

Instruments

Piano, Harpsichord, Electronic Keyboard

Specialisms

Early Music, Contemporary Music, Jazz, Improvisation, Instrumental Accompaniment, Vocal Accompaniment, Vocal Repetiteur, Musical Theatre, Musical Direction

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