Paul Trueblood
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Paul Trueblood has been musical director/pianist for a variety of performers including Diane Keaton
, Michael Feinstein
, Julie Wilson
, Carol Lawrence, Matthew Broderick
, Anita Ellis, and Earl Wrightson
and Lois Hunt
. During their lifetime, he was personal pianist for lyricist Alan Jay Lerner and director Joshua Logan. He has written special material for Radio City Music Hall, Martin Charnin's Upstairs At O'Neal's, numerous cabaret performers, and two scores for the American Methodist Bicentennial A Church Is Born (Carnegie Hall, 1985) and Aldersgate 88 (Avery Fisher Hall, 1988). He appeared with Betty Comden and Adolph Green on Broadway and thereafter in many concert engagements.
He conducted the New York companies of the Drama Critics Award musical Your Own Thing, the 1986 Broadway revival of Oh Coward!, Joshua Logan's remounting of Annie Get Your Gun, The Chosen, Red White and Maddox and Dancing In The Dark, a revue of the songs of Dietz and Schwartz, produced by Arthur Schwartz for the Manhattan Theater Club.
In 1996 - 97, Paul toured the world with Marianne Faithfull
in a Kurt Weill evening. His CD with Ms. Faithfull, 20th Century Blues, was recorded live at the New Morning Club
and is in stores on RCA Victor.
As a composer, Paul Trueblood's work has been heard at Radio City Music Hall
, Carnegie Hall
, Lincoln Center and in every major New York cabaret venue.
Recently he conducted two new CDs with Metropolitan Opera star Youngok Shin
(Samsung Classics), and with Broadway legend Sally Anne Howes, and is the musical director for young German chanteuse Micaela Leon.
Paul is also a Master Teacher at the annual Cabaret Conference at Yale University.
Diane Keaton
Diane Keaton is an American film actress, director, producer, and screenwriter. Keaton began her career on stage, and made her screen debut in 1970...
, Michael Feinstein
Michael Feinstein
Michael Jay Feinstein is an American singer, pianist, and music revivalist. He is an interpreter of, and an anthropologist and archivist for, the repertoire known as the Great American Songbook. In 1988 he won a Drama Desk Special Award for celebrating American musical theatre songs...
, Julie Wilson
Julie Wilson
Julie Wilson is an American singer and actress.Born in Omaha, Nebraska and first finding a musical outlet with local musical group Hank's Hepcats, Wilson headed to New York City during World War II and found work in two of Manhattan's leading nightclubs, the Latin Quarter and the Copacabana...
, Carol Lawrence, Matthew Broderick
Matthew Broderick
Matthew Broderick is an American film and stage actor who, among other roles, played the title character in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Adult Simba in The Lion King film series, and Leo Bloom in the film and Broadway productions of The Producers.He has won two Tony Awards, one in 1983 for his...
, Anita Ellis, and Earl Wrightson
Earl Wrightson
Earl Wrightson was an American singer and actor best known for musical theatre, concerts and television performances. His regular singing partner was the soprano Lois Hunt.-Early life and career:...
and Lois Hunt
Lois Hunt
Lois Hunt was an American lyric soprano who had spent some of her earlier career performing at New York City's Metropolitan Opera and later spent four decades performing and recording classical music and musical theater numbers nationwide together with baritone Earl Wrightson.-Early life and...
. During their lifetime, he was personal pianist for lyricist Alan Jay Lerner and director Joshua Logan. He has written special material for Radio City Music Hall, Martin Charnin's Upstairs At O'Neal's, numerous cabaret performers, and two scores for the American Methodist Bicentennial A Church Is Born (Carnegie Hall, 1985) and Aldersgate 88 (Avery Fisher Hall, 1988). He appeared with Betty Comden and Adolph Green on Broadway and thereafter in many concert engagements.
He conducted the New York companies of the Drama Critics Award musical Your Own Thing, the 1986 Broadway revival of Oh Coward!, Joshua Logan's remounting of Annie Get Your Gun, The Chosen, Red White and Maddox and Dancing In The Dark, a revue of the songs of Dietz and Schwartz, produced by Arthur Schwartz for the Manhattan Theater Club.
In 1996 - 97, Paul toured the world with Marianne Faithfull
Marianne Faithfull
Marianne Evelyn Faithfull is an award-winning English singer, songwriter and actress whose career has spanned five decades....
in a Kurt Weill evening. His CD with Ms. Faithfull, 20th Century Blues, was recorded live at the New Morning Club
New Morning (club)
New Morning is a Parisian music nightclub that opened in 1981, specialising in jazz and blues.Its concerts are often featured on Mezzo TV.-History:The first concert was given on 16 April 1981 by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers....
and is in stores on RCA Victor.
As a composer, Paul Trueblood's work has been heard at Radio City Music Hall
Radio City Music Hall
Radio City Music Hall is an entertainment venue located in New York City's Rockefeller Center. Its nickname is the Showplace of the Nation, and it was for a time the leading tourist destination in the city...
, Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States, located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east stretch of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street, two blocks south of Central Park....
, Lincoln Center and in every major New York cabaret venue.
Recently he conducted two new CDs with Metropolitan Opera star Youngok Shin
Youngok Shin
Shin Youngok is a South Korean lyric coloratura soprano known for her interpretations of the bel canto repertoire.- Early life and education :...
(Samsung Classics), and with Broadway legend Sally Anne Howes, and is the musical director for young German chanteuse Micaela Leon.
Paul is also a Master Teacher at the annual Cabaret Conference at Yale University.