Music

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    A Music Project at the Pageant

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    Jam Session at FAP 23

About the Music Thread

Team Music is a very diverse group of artists at FAP, participating in workshops from songwriting to vocal performance to orchestration. We start with a Masterclass with Reisdent Artist Sam Willmott, followed by an Info Session about curricular and extra-curricular involvement opportunities, and a Keynote speaker.  Whether you consider yourself a composer, lyricist, instrumentalist, vocalist, etc., or you are simply just generally interested in Music as an art-form, you will learn tremendously from the diverse talents of your Resident Artists and fellow FAPpers!

 

Resident Artist: Sam Willmott

Sam Willmott is a NYC-based composer, lyricist and librettist whose projects include the bhangra musical Bhangin' It (with playwrights Rehana Lew Mirza and Mike Lew, premiering at the La Jolla Playhouse and McCarter Theatre in 2021), Yo, Vikings! and the marionette show Wake Up, Daisy! (both with Marcus Stevens), the Emmy-nominated HBO documentary Song of Parkland, Standardized Testing - The Musical!!!!, the mini-musical Scarlet Takes a Tumble, and additional lyrics for the stage adaptation of Jule Styne and Bob Merrill's Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol. Sam is the recipient of the Richard Rodgers Award, the Kleban Prize for Most Promising Lyricist, a Jonathan Larson Grant, the Fred Ebb Award, and the ASCAP Foundation's Cole Porter and Harold Adamson Awards. He is also a proud educator who has taught at Harvard University, in Pace University's BFA Musical Theater program, and with Lincoln Center's Songwriting in Schools Program. Sam is also a staff writer for the Korean English-language program English Egg, for whom he has written over 150 songs.