Snow Pond Center for the Arts - Summer Concert Series
Snow Pond Center for the Arts, Bangor Symphony Orchestra , Evan Wilson Viola soloist, NEMC Pops Concert, Broadway Under the Stars, U.S. Air Force Strings, In the Woods,
Snow Pond Center for the Arts, Bangor Symphony Orchestra , Evan Wilson Viola soloist, NEMC Pops Concert, Broadway Under the Stars, U.S. Air Force Strings, In the Woods,
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Music degree in Vocal Per<strong>for</strong>mance from <strong>the</strong> New England<br />
Conservatory in Boston, Massachusetts.<br />
Mark Hardy has appeared on Broadway<br />
in Les Miserables and Titanic, as well<br />
as <strong>the</strong> 75th birthday tribute to Stephen<br />
Sondheim, Children and Art. At Lincoln<br />
<strong>Center</strong> he played Roger in A New Brain<br />
and off-Broadway he appeared in The<br />
Rothschilds at Circle in <strong>the</strong> Square downtown, Juba at <strong>the</strong><br />
Vineyard, and Helluva Town at Rainbow and Stars, among<br />
o<strong>the</strong>rs. He toured with <strong>the</strong> first national companies of<br />
Sunset Boulevard, Les Miserables, and The Music of Andrew<br />
Lloyd Webber (in which he was <strong>the</strong> alternate <strong>for</strong> Michael<br />
Craw<strong>for</strong>d). Regional credits include roles at Denver <strong>Center</strong><br />
Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, <strong>the</strong> Long Wharf,<br />
Houston Grand Opera, Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati,<br />
and GeVa. As a director, his productions of Trouble<br />
in Mind and The Women received League of Cincinnati<br />
Theatre directing awards; o<strong>the</strong>r notable directing credits<br />
include Carousel, Titanic, Fiddler On The Roof, The Taming<br />
of <strong>the</strong> Shrew, On The Town, The Threepenny Opera, <strong>the</strong><br />
Lippa Wild Party, and <strong>the</strong> new Maltby/Shire/Weidman<br />
musical Take Flight in its university premiere. Mark has<br />
also appeared as a guest artist with many symphony orchestras<br />
celebrating classic Broadway music, including St.<br />
Louis Symphony, North Carolina Symphony, Long Island<br />
Philharmonic, New York Chamber Orchestra, Calgary<br />
Philharmonic, and Orchestra London.<br />
He teaches musical <strong>the</strong>atre per<strong>for</strong>mance and acting in<br />
Montclair State University’s prestigious Musical Theatre<br />
program, rated among <strong>the</strong> country’s best training programs<br />
in <strong>the</strong> field. His teaching has taken him to London,<br />
China, Greece, Romania, and Croatia. Mark is delighted to<br />
be a part of <strong>the</strong> dynamic creative environment at NEMC.<br />
Marian Murphy is an accomplished<br />
singer and <strong>the</strong>atrical artist who brings<br />
a versatile background to her work on<br />
stage, into <strong>the</strong> teaching studio and to her<br />
directing. A veteran of national Broadway<br />
tours and major regional <strong>the</strong>atre<br />
productions, her favorite roles include: Cosette in Les<br />
Misérables, Christine in Phantom, Mo<strong>the</strong>r in Bright Lights,<br />
Big City, Marian in The Music Man, Fleur in Esmeralda<br />
(world premiere), Mary Jane Wilkes in Big River and Fiona<br />
in Brigadoon. She has been featured with several orchestras<br />
around <strong>the</strong> world, including <strong>the</strong> Shanghai Symphony and<br />
<strong>the</strong> Concordia Orchestra at New York’s Lincoln <strong>Center</strong>.<br />
Her career has taken her to many stages here and abroad,<br />
and to o<strong>the</strong>r venues such as churches, cabarets, cruise<br />
lines, <strong>the</strong>me parks, dinner <strong>the</strong>atres and benefit concerts.<br />
She has three solo recordings: “This Must Be Love”,<br />
celebrating love songs from many genres, a jazz CD –<br />
“Live at <strong>the</strong> Saturday Club” with renowned jazz pianist<br />
Bill Schmearer, and most recently, “Amazed By You” – all<br />
new cabaret music written by pianist/composer Mat<strong>the</strong>w<br />
Quayle. She can also be heard as a guest artist on Gail<br />
Levinsky’s recently released “Tipping Point”.<br />
As a teaching artist and clinician, Marian holds workshops<br />
and assemblies in educational institutions ranging<br />
from elementary schools to universities. She has a bachelor’s<br />
degree and a Per<strong>for</strong>mer’s Certificate of Merit from<br />
<strong>the</strong> School of Music at <strong>the</strong> State University of New York in<br />
Fredonia and earned her Actor’s Equity Association membership<br />
with <strong>the</strong> Tennessee Repertory Theatre’s Young<br />
Artist Program. As a member of National Association of<br />
Teachers of Singing, she has been teaching private voice<br />
students <strong>for</strong> over twenty years. She has been a member of<br />
<strong>the</strong> faculty at New England Music Camp <strong>for</strong> twenty-two<br />
years and is currently <strong>the</strong> Artistic Director of its Musical<br />
Theatre program. She is an adjunct voice teacher and <strong>the</strong><br />
Musical Theatre Artistic Director at The Hill School in<br />
Pottstown, PA.<br />
Marian resides in Collegeville, Pennsylvania where she<br />
freelances and runs her own successful vocal studio. Her<br />
favorite role is that of wife and mo<strong>the</strong>r and she continues<br />
to be grateful <strong>for</strong> <strong>the</strong> love and support of her husband<br />
Nathan and sons Jamie and Noah! She is thankful to be<br />
sharing <strong>the</strong> stage with this talented group of friends <strong>for</strong><br />
“Broadway Under <strong>the</strong> Stars”!<br />
Sal Viviano has sung well over 300 pops<br />
concerts with nearly 200 symphony<br />
orchestras around <strong>the</strong> world, at a long<br />
list of beautiful concert halls, and such<br />
iconic venues as The White House,<br />
Carnegie Hall, Wolf Trap, Teatro Lirico<br />
Giuseppe Verdi, The Waldorf Astoria’s Starlight Roof and<br />
Ballroom, London’s Palladium, The Kennedy <strong>Center</strong>, NY’s<br />
Central Park, Teatro Massimo (Palermo), The Hollywood<br />
Bowl… to name a few… A Detroit native, The New York<br />
Times recently called Sal Viviano “… a luxuriant vocalist<br />
with ef<strong>for</strong>tless style…” Viviano began his career as a<br />
teenager opening <strong>for</strong> comedy greats of <strong>the</strong> last generation,<br />
in Chicago, and in showrooms throughout <strong>the</strong> Midwest<br />
(often in clubs at which he was too young to be ‘served’)…<br />
After completing his degrees (Eastern Illinois University),<br />
he taught high school, and worked and entertained<br />
at Nippersink Manor Resort (WI) in <strong>the</strong> summers, while<br />
also earning his Union cards as an actor doing <strong>the</strong>ater,<br />
jingles, voice-overs, and commercials in Chicago. Sal<br />
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