Jeffrey Stock
JEFFREY STOCK composes a wide range of music, including Broadway musicals, orchestral works, and opera. He composed the music for the Tony Award-nominated Broadway musical Triumph of Love, starring Betty Buckley, F. Murray Abraham, Susan Egan, Roger Bart, Kevin Chamberlin, Christopher Sieber and Nancy Opel. The show was named by USA Today as the Best New Musical of 1997-98. The New Yorker raved: "Smart, fresh and funny... Jeffrey Stock makes a remarkable Broadway debut!" "Lighting strikes!" wrote Ben Brantley in The New York Times. Triumph has received over 100 productions by professional and amateur theaters around the country and in Europe and Japan. Jeffrey's hour-long symphonic and choral work Lulie The Iceberg was premiered at Carnegie Hall featuring the world's most celebrated cellist, Yo-Yo Ma, violinist Pamela Frank and saxophonist Paul Winter, narrated by Sam Waterston. Based on a book by HIH Princess Takamado of Japan, Lulie was recorded on Sony Classical and has also been performed and televised in Europe. Jeffrey is a recipient of the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship for music composition and the Jonathan Larson Grant. He was one of the composers of the Off-Broadway musical Songs from an Unmade Bed, which was presented to great acclaim at New York Theatre Workshop. In 2008 he conducted a concert in Beijing, featuring Broadway stars singing from the great American songbook. Since then, he has taught master classes in music drama at the Shanghai Theatre Academy and lectured at the Shanghai Music Conservatory and Beijing's Central Academy of Drama. An evening devoted to his theater songs was produced at The Joseph Papp Public Theater's Joe's Pub in 2002. He also received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to write the score and libretto for a new opera based on Boccaccio's Decameron, entitled Lodovico. He has won residencies at artist colonies including McDowell, Millay, and Blue Mountain Center. He spent 1999 living in Bali, Indonesia, intensively studying the local language, customs and music. In 1994 he had the opportunity to study in Japan with legendary composer Toru Takemitsu. He received a BA in music from Yale University. Currently he is writing a new musical with Thomas Meehan, co-author of the Broadway smash hits Annie, The Producers and Hairspray. He is also collaborating with Stephen Temperley, author of the Broadway play Souvenir, and with Marc Acito, author of the cult hit comic novel How I Paid for College. Jeffrey can be found on the web at www.jeffreystock.net Bio as of March, 2011. American Theatre Wing programs, interviews and/or credits include: American Theatre Wing Jonathan Larson Grant Recipient - 2003 Internet Broadway Database Listing (IBDB.com) Website: www.jeffreystock.net