Paul Trueblood

Paul Trueblood is a veteran New York composer, arranger, vocal coach, conductor and pianist. He has written special material for Radio City Music Hall, the hit revue Martin Charnin's Upstairs At O'Neal's, numerous cabaret performers and two scores for the American Methodist Bicentennial-A Church Is Born (Carnegie Hall, 1985) and Aldersgate '88 (Avery Fisher Hall, 1988)

He was musical director of A Party With Comden And Green on Broadway and television and has just returned from London and "A Party" performance at the Barbican Centre. He conducted the New York companies of the Drama Critics Award musical Your Own Thing, the 1986 Broadway revival of Oh Coward!, Joshua Logan's remounting of Annie Get Your Gun, The Chosen, Red White and Maddox and Dancing In The Dark, a revue of the songs of Dietz and Schwartz, produced by Arthur Schwartz for the Manhattan Theater Club.

Each summer he is a Master Teacher at the Cabaret Symposium of the O'Neill Theater Center. On October 1989 he appeared at the White House with Judy Kay. He provided vocal direction and arrangements for the Elektra/Nonesuch restoration recordings of Girl Crazy and Strike Up The Band.

Mr. Trueblood has carved a unique niche as "pianist to the songwriters," appearing at the 92nd Street Y, UMHA, in concert and on television with Alan Jay Lerner, Carolyn Leigh, Arthur Schwartz and the Sherman Brothers, among others. He has written and/or arranged and conducted industrial shows for IBM, Intel, Chevrolet, Uniroyal, Dupont, Arrow Shirts and Bata Shoes.

He appears regularly on the concert circuit with Earl Wrightson and Lois Hunt and was musical director of Joshua Logan's Musical Moments, a revue in which that famed director recalled his life and work.

A graduate of Northwestern University, Mr. Trueblood began his professional life in New York clubs, among them the Upstairs At The Downstairs, Reno Sweeney, the Bon Soir, the Oak Room of the Algonquin and Rainbow and Stars. He is a much-sought-after pianist and vocal coach and has worked with a great variety of performers-from Diane Keaton, Dorothy Loudon, Anne Francine, Anita Ellis, Nancy Dussault, Elaine Stritch, Helen Gallagher and Carol King to young hopefuls preparing their first cabaret acts.