April 3, 2015

The Lewis Center for the Arts presentsA Master Class and Interview with Grammy and Emmy-nominated

conductor Judith ClurmanPublic invited to observe as part of spring theater course on the Broadway musical

taught by Professor Stacy Wolf

Photo caption: Grammy and Emmy-nominated conductor, educator and choral specialist Judith ClurmanPhoto credit: Frank Wang

Who: Grammy and Emmy-nominated conductor, educator, and choral specialist Judith ClurmanWhat: Master class with Princeton students and interviewWhen: Tuesday, April 14 at 1:30 p.m.Where: Room 219 at 185 Nassau St. on the campus of Princeton UniversityFree and open to the public to observe

(PRINCETON, NJ)  Grammy and Emmy-nominated conductor, educator, and choral specialist

Judith Clurman will hold a master class with Princeton students followed by an interview on

Tuesday, April 14 at 1:30 p.m., which is free and open to the public to observe. The event is one

in a series of guest artist visits to Professor of Theater Stacy Wolf’s spring course, “Isn’t It

Romantic? The Broadway Musical from Rodgers and Hammerstein to Sondheim.” The event

will be held in Room 219 at 185 Nassau Street.

Judith Clurman has worked in a diverse range of musical genres from Milton Babbit to Sesame

Street. She has commissioned and premiered works by over fifty American composers including

Babbit, Marvin Hamlisch, Nico Muhly, Stephen Paulus, Christopher Rouse, and Howard Shore.

While Clurman’s work has taken her to many prestigious performance spaces, perhaps her most

familiar residence was on television’s Sesame Street. Her collaboration with the Muppets as

associate music director earned a 2009 Emmy nomination for Outstanding Achievement in

Music Direction and Composition. Her work on a recording with Son Sonora Voices earned her

multiple Latin Grammy nominations. She conducted “The Music In My Mind” for Hamlisch’s

children’s book.

Her educational work has included programs at The Julliard School, Harvard University,

Cambridge University, Columbia University, Curtis Institute of Music, the Zimriya at Hebrew

University (Israel), and the Janacek Academy of Music and Performing Arts (Czech Republic).

Currently, she conducts Essential Voices USA, which is in residence with the New York Pops at

Carnegie Hall and performs programs at the DiMenna Space for Classical Music. She has

recorded for New World, Sono Luminos, and Delos, and has been published by and edited works

for G. Schirmer, Hal Leonard, Schott, Subito, and Boosey & Hawkes. She is a member of the

American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers’ Special Classification Committee and

the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

Previous guests to Wolf’s class throughout the semester included Grammy Award-winning

Broadway composer Paul Bogaev, arts administrator and producer Howard Sherman, and

theatrical producer and president of Disney Theatrical Group Thomas Schumacher.

Wolf is a professor of theater and director of the Princeton Arts Fellows in the Lewis Center

where she teaches courses in American musical theatre history, dramaturgy and dramatic

literature, histories of U.S. performance, performance theory, and performance studies. Wolf is

the author of Changed for Good: A Feminist History of the Broadway Musical; A Problem Like

Maria: Gender and Sexuality in the American Musical; and the co-editor of The Oxford

Handbook of the American Musical. She has published articles on theatre spectatorship,

performance pedagogy, and musical theatre in many journals, including Theatre Journal,

Modern Drama, and Camera Obscura. She was the editor of Theatre Topics: A Journal of

Pedagogy and Praxis from 2001 to 2003.  She also directs the Lewis Center’s Music Theater

Lab and has experience as a theater director and dramaturg.

To learn more about this event, the Music Theater Lab, and the more than 100 events presented

annually by the Lewis Center for the Arts visit arts.princeton.edu.

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