Dr. Noreen Green, Artistic Director
Biography of
Hershey
Felder
HERSHEY
FELDER Actor, Playwright, Composer and Steinway Concert Artist. Broadway:
George Gershwin Alone (Helen Hayes Theatre);  Back
From Broadway (Lincoln Centre Theatre) Off-Broadway, Regional, and
International appearances include stage roles in Stempenyu, A
Fiddler on the Roof, Gigi, Waiting for Godot, Macbeth,
Sotoba Komache, Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night, Shlemiel
I, Lies My Father Told Me, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,
The Importance of Being Earnest and The King and I.
Mr. Felder has just been named a Visiting Scholar in Residence at Harvard
University Department of Music. Conducting credits include: La
Bohème, Falstaff, Turandot, Tosca, Manon
(Massenet) and The Master and Margarita for the Harold Prince Musical
Theatre Workshop, Fiddler on the Roof and Gigi, among others.
Writing and composing credits include: Adam’s Apple-Eve’s Dessert
(The Story of Weight Watchers) New Jersey, 1996; Fairytale,
an operatic musical, New York, 1995; Noah’s Ark, an opera, Los Angeles,
1997, Toronto, 2001; Sing! A Musical Journey, Los Angeles, 1998;
George Gershwin Alone, Los Angeles, Florida, New York, Boston 2000-2002;
Back from Broadway, Los Angeles, Florida, New York, Boston, 2001-2002;
Aliyah, concerto for piano and orchestra. Recordings include Love
Songs of the Yiddish Theatre – The Music of Abraham Ellstein; Felder
has been featured in television specials on CBS, NBC, PBS, BRAVO, CBC and
CTV. Concert artist appearances in The United States, Canada, The United
Kingdom, Poland, Italy, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Israel. He is the President
of Eighty-Eight Entertainment, LLC and he has been newly appointed as Artistic
Advisor for the new Centre for Arts and Culture in Boston. His next
project is a play about Romance set in France, 1846 - through the eyes
of pianist-composer Frederic Chopin, his lover the author, George Sand,
and their friend, the great painter, Eugene Delacroix. |
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