As a conductor, David Bishop has been specializing for the last twenty-five years in American musical theater, both in theaters and in concert halls around the country. Mr. Bishop has been musical director for productions on and off-Broadway in New York, including Whoopee at the ANTA Theater, and Miami and Therese Racquin at Playwrights Horizon. He was both arranger and musical supervisor for pre-Broadway productions of Carol Hall's Good Sports, Apollo: It Was Just Like Magic, in collaboration with director George Faison, and Sing, Mahalia, Sing, also with George Faison. He was a co-creator and arranger for Irving Berlin's C'mon and Hear at the McCarter Theater. At the Guthrie Theater, he music directed productions of Guys and Dolls, Anything Goes, Candide and Babes in Arms, serving also as co-writer of the adaptation and arranger for the last, in collaboration with director Garland Wright.
Arranging and conducting an innovative series of concert revues devoted to Broadway composers from George Gershwin to Steven Sondheim, Mr. Bishop has been a frequent guest conductor of Minnesota Orchestra and the Houston Symphony and has also appeared as conductor with the orchestras of Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, Indianapolis, Buffalo, New Jersey, Pacific Symphony, Arizona, South Bend and St. Louis.
Mr. Bishop's musical compositions include Troopin' and Life: May 23, 1950. His version of Phantom of the Opera was performed at theaters around Germany, including the Städtische Bühnen in Regensburg, and he has composed two musicals in Romanian, a language he does not speak, for the Teatrul National in Chisinau, Moldova. He has composed incidental music for productions at the Guthrie Theater, North Carolina Shakespeare Festival, New York Public Theater, McCarter Theater and Shakespeare Theater at the Folger. Most recently, his opera Esperanza, adapted from the movie The Salt of the Earth, received its premiere in Madison, Wisconsin.
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