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Colin Welford Nationality British Fields Conductor Institutions University of Florida Alma mater Brasenose College, Oxford Colin Welford (Born Manchester, England 1967) is a composer for stage and screen, conductor, orchestrator and music teacher currently based in the United States. He hold a Masters degree in Music from Oxford University, England (Organ Scholar, Brasenose College), and pursued graduate study at The Royal College of Music, London (Orchestral conducting, composition), University of Miami (Orchestral Conducting, composition) and at Columbia College Chicago (Master's program in Film Composition). He was a faculty member of the New World School of the Arts in Miami, Florida for three years where he led the Orchestral Department and taught orchestration, and at the University of Florida and Florida International University where he was a professor in orchestration and composition. He has conducted widely in Europe and the United States as a freelance Opera and Ballet conductor, and as staff conductor at the English National Ballet. He was Music Director for the original 1997 stage production of The Fix (Dir. Sam Mendes) at the Donmar Warehouse, London and Music Director (later Music Supervisor) for Pete Townshend of 'The Who' on the Broadway Musical The Who's Tommy (Dir. Des McAnuff) in the UK and Europe. Between 2000 and 2005 he served as Music Supervisor and Assistant Music Producer of Disney's The Lion King on Broadway (Dir. Julie Taymor) and for eleven subsequent productions worldwide, earning a nomination for an NAACP award for outstanding service to people of color. He has arranged extensively for orchestra and choral ensembles, The New York Pops orchestra amongst others, and scored independent film and animation. Orchestrator and arranger of several award-winning solo vocal albums, and conductor of orchestral albums which have gone Platinum in Germany and Holland. Music Director of the award-winning Chicago production of Wicked (2005–2009) (Music by Stephen Schwartz, Dir. Joe Mantello). Conductor of Billy Elliot (Dir. Stephen Daldry) on Broadway and subsequently Music Director for Billy Elliot in Chicago and Toronto (2009–2011) [1]
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