THE FLORIDA ORCHESTRA | 2017-2018 Grammy and Emmy Award winning c o n d u c t o r , music director, pianist, arranger, o r c h e s t r a t o r , and composer Lee Musiker has established a distinguished and multifaceted career as both soloist and collaborator with the premier artists in the classical, operatic, Broadway, jazz and pop music genres. Musiker has guest conducted the New York Philharmonic and the Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, and National symphony orchestras, among others. He was music director and principal conductor of the Palm Beach Pops for the 2014/15 season and music director and conductor for the Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon. Other conducting credits include the Jazz at Lincoln Center, Count Basie, Duke Ellington and Henry Mancini Institute orchestras. A Steinway Artist, he has performed with the New York Philharmonic and Principal Brass Quintet, New York City Ballet, American Ballet Theater, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony, and Cleveland Orchestra, among others. A recipient of Grammy and Emmy awards, he has appeared on NPR’s Marian McPartland’s Piano Jazz and Judy Carmichael’s Jazz Inspired and PBS’ Live from Lincoln Center and Great Performances. As arranger, orchestrator and composer, Musiker has written for symphonic, chamber and pops orchestras, big band, brass quintet, and classical, operatic, Broadway, jazz and cabaret artists. He has served on the faculties of the Mannes School of Music, New School, and New York University, and he has given master classes at The Metropolitan Opera Lindemann Young Artists Program and Indiana University. A native New Yorker and a fourth-generation musician, Musiker received degrees from the Manhattan School of Music and the Eastman School of Music, with further studies at The Juilliard School and Bard College. Doug LaBrecque thrilled theater audiences as The Phantom and Raoul in the Harold Prince production of The Phantom of the Opera. He has starred on Broadway as Ravenal in the Hal Prince revival of Show Boat, a role he also performed in Canada and Chicago. He was featured in Oscar Hammerstein’s 100th Birthday Celebration on Broadway at the Gershwin Theatre and toured nationally with Les Miserables. Regionally, LaBrecque has performed leading roles in Candide, A Chorus Line, and Man of La Mancha, among many others. A graduate of University of Michigan he was also featured in the world premiere of A Wonderful Life, written by Sheldon Harnick and Joe Raposo, and starred in the premiere revival of Kurt Weill and Alan Jay Lerner’s Love Life. LaBrecque has been a soloist with some of the world’s finest symphony orchestras including the National Symphony, Israel Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony, and San Francisco Symphony, among many others. He recently made his Carnegie Hall debut as a soloist with the New York Pops in a tribute to Richard Rodgers, the same season he debuted with The Boston Pops. He was featured with Peter Nero in Broadway Showstoppers, a live recording with Nero’s Philly Pops. Other special engagements have included singing with Carole Bayer-Sager at Feinsteins’s in Manhattan and the Cinegrill in Los Angeles; performing alongside Broadway legend Jerry Herman with the Naples Philharmonic; and appearing onstage with Senators Ted Kennedy and Orrin Hatch (singing together!) at Hickory Hill, the legendary home of Ethel Kennedy. LEE MUSIKER Guest Conductor & Piano DOUG LaBRECQUE Vocalist 59
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