2024 State Conference
Commissioned Composer and Performer
DAVID MALLAMUD, Composer
David Mallamud is an Emmy-nominee, a MacDowell, Dramatist Guild, and Leonard Bernstein Fellow (Tanglewood). Credits include: orchestrations, arrangements, and additional music for Mike Mills' (of REM) Concerto for Violin, Rock Band, and Orchestra (for Robert McDuffie), and A Night of Georgia Music (PBS, Emmy Award for best long-form entertainment); R.E.M. Explored (Atlanta Symphony, St. Louis Symphony); Dr. Seuss' The Sneetches: The Musical (written with Playwright Philip Dawkins, CTC, MN); Flight School: The Musical (several Off-Broadway runs, tours of China and The US), Kid Frankenstein (Off-Broadway, Millbrook Playhouse), nine song cycles for The Albany Symphony's Dogs of Desire; The Wild & Whimsical Worlds of David Mallamud (Broadway Records, featuring Sierra Boggess, Amick Byram, Morgan James, Constantine Maroulis, Christiane Noll, Brian Charles Rooney, Cathie Ryan winner of a Broadway World Album Award). Upcoming projects: an untitled musical with Craig Lucas; Spittoonia on the Erie (with Nathan Christensen, premiering at the Northern Sky Theater in 2025); a recording of the musical Off on a Comet with Kelli O'Hara, Santino Fontana, Heidi Blickenstaff, Natalie Weiss, and Jason Gotay.
KENNETH MEYER, Guitar
The Washington Post calls Kenneth Meyer, “A thinking man’s guitarist who plays with impressive gravity and power.” The national top prize winner of the MTNA Collegiate Artist Competition, Meyer has received awards from the Barlow Endowment, Argosy Foundation, and Hanson Institute for American Music. Select activities include performances in Carnegie Hall, Yankee Stadium, Romania, Hungary, Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand. He is a guitar professor at Syracuse University and featured at festivals, colleges, and universities throughout this country and abroad. He holds the Doctor of Musical Arts from the Eastman School and records with Innova, Albany, Summit, Bridge, and Frameworks Records.
KATIE WEBBER, Mezzo-Soprano
Mezzo Soprano Katie Weber is a dynamic and moving performer, with a commitment to text, musicality, and communication through music. "Weber possesses a formidable instrument, with a highly melodious but penetrating timbre.”(Rochester Democrat and Chronicle). Member of Actors Equity Association since 2017, her non-linear career has spanned musical theater showcases, performing in workshops of new musicals and operas, recording new works and singing for studio sessions. She made her Off-Broadway Debut in Sweetee: A New Musical directed by Emmy Award Winner Pat Birch at Signature Theater in NYC. Born and raised in Syracuse NY, Katie received a double bachelors from the Eastman School of Music in Voice Performance and Music Education. She just received her Masters of Music in Voice Pedagogy from Syracuse University Setnor School of Music. (Website: www.kaywebernyc.com )
