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Originally from Helena, Montana, Kurt has been playing piano since the age of three, and has studied composition, arranging, music history and ethnomusicology. Currently the music director/conductor of Hamilton on Broadway. Previous work as a conductor includes Hamilton (Public Theater), Bring It On (Broadway), Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 (Off-Broadway), In The Heights (National Tour), and FLY (Dallas Theater Center). He was co-orchestrator and music director of One Thousand Nights and One Day (Off-Broadway), and contributed arrangements and additional orchestrations for Carmen La Cubana (Théâtre du Châtelet) and Somewhere (Hartford Stage). He served as music director for the Vail Dance Festival, and conducted a performance of Stravinsky’s Apollo at NY City Center. He has collaborated with Juilliard President-elect Damian Woetzel at the Kennedy Center on DEMO – Song and Dance and DEMO – Jerome Robbins. He has written arrangements and music directed for numerous Cabaret venues, including the New York ACLU gala and Andrea Burns’ Broadway Latin Party, and also has written music for Sesame Street. After studying Music and Comparative Religion at Harvard University, he received a Paine Fellowship to study classical and devotional music in North India. He composed the music for the Cuban short film La Maquina (“The Machine”), an official selection for the 2017 HollyShorts Film Festival. He is grateful to several wonderful piano teachers and music professors, and especially to Alex Lacamoire, a mentor who continues to inspire and shape his musical life.
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