Will Curry Email & Phone Number

Will Curry enjoys a diverse career as a conductor, violist, violinist, educator, and orchestrator. Recently the music director of the Miss Saigon national tour, Will previously held the positions of violist/assistant conductor with the Broadway revivals of My Fair Lady, Miss Saigon, Fiddler on the Roof, and Les Misérables. Prior to New York, he was the associate conductor for the Mirvish's Les Misérables in Toronto and the assistant conductor/concertmaster for the Les Misérables national tour. An avid chamber musician, Will is a member of the West Side Players and Mod3, and curates the online concert series Songs from the Shower.Cast albums include My Fair Lady, Fiddler on the Roof, and John & Jen, and he released two solo albums, Fill in the Words and The Time of Year for Miracles, with Ian Patrick Gibb. Will contributed orchestrations to Jake Weinstein’s short film The Ode to the Singing Butler, and to Lawrence Rush’s musical adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. Other orchestration credits include performances by Andrew Lippa, Carole Shelley, Christine Ebersole, Andrea McArdle, Jay Armstrong Johnson and Andrew Keenan-Bolger, Harvey Evans and Jim Brochu, and Daniel Reichard.Will grew up in Hershey, PA, and was exposed to music at a very early age. He began piano at age 5 and picked up violin and trumpet at age 10. Having been very active musically throughout high school, Will then attended the Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Arts, which ultimately lead him to a career in music.A graduate of Northwestern University, Will studied viola with Roland Vamos and conducting with Victor Yampolsky. While at Northwestern, he participated in masterclasses with Martha Katz, Peter Slovik, Li-Quo Chang, and Clara Takarabe. Previous teachers include Charles Pickler, Alice Bish, and Johannes Deitrich. He attended the Pierre Monteux School as a conductor in 2009, studying with Michael Jinbo.While at Northwestern, Will was a founding member of the Helios String Quartet and performed in masterclasses with the Guarneri String Quartet and the Casals String Quartet. In July 2009, he performed on Maine Public Radio with a chamber group from the Pierre Monteux School.Trained in the Suzuki method at The School for Strings, Will teaches violin/viola at The Elisabeth Morrow School and is a teaching artist with Broadway Classroom. He also founded an online conducting course titled the Musical Theater Conductor: Leading with Confidence.Will currently plays a 2007 Bronek Cison viola and a 2016 Ryan Soltis violin.

Listed skills include Music, Conducting, Orchestration, Chamber Music, and 12 others.

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  Northwestern University

  Viola Performance