HERSHEY FELDER Steinway Concert Artist, Composer, Playwright, Actor, Producer

Broadway, London’s West End: George Gershwin Alone (Helen Hayes Theatre, Duchess Theatre). Regional and international appearances include Beethoven As I Knew Him: Geffen Playhouse, The Old Globe Theatre, Arizona Theatre Company. Monsieur Chopin: Chicago’s Royal George Theatre, The Geffen Playhouse, Arizona Theatre Company, American Repertory Theatre, Hartford Stage, Ravinia Festival, The Old Globe Theatre, Cleveland Play House; Command Performance for the Polish Ambassador to the United States, Polish Embassy, Washington; Uijeongbu Theatre Festival, South Korea. George Gershwin Alone: 2004-2005 Chicago; 1999-2008 at Ford’s Theatre, American Repertory Theatre, Hartford Stage, The Geffen Playhouse (2007 Los Angeles OVATION Awards, Best Musical and Best Actor), The Old Globe Theatre, Arizona Theatre Company, Prince Music Theatre (Philadelphia), Cleveland Play House, The Gilmore Festival, Ravinia, El Paso, Uijeongbu, and others.

Compositions include Fairytale, a musical; Les Anges de Paris, Suite for Violin and Piano; Song Settings, poetry by Vachel Lindsay; Aliyah, Concerto for Piano and Orchestra; Saltimbanques for Piano and Orchestra; Etudes Thematiques for Piano. Recordings include Love Songs of the Yiddish Theatre, Back from Broadway, George Gershwin Alone and Monsieur Chopin for the WFMT Radio Network Recordings label, Beethoven As I Knew Him for the Eighty Eight Entertainment label. Worldwide live broadcast, George Gershwin Alone, July 2005. Current projects include a Negaunee Foundation Chicago composition commission; a new musical, Histoire D'Amour a Paris/A Paris Love Story; and a musicalization of a little-known story about the 16th President, Abraham Lincoln. Mr. Felder is on the Board of Directors of the Chicago College of Performing Arts and has been a Scholar in Residence at Harvard University’s Department of Music.