
about.
Based in NYC, Harrison Roth is a multi-disciplinary artist with skills and experience in Music Direction, Electronic Music Design, Orchestration, Music Preparation, and much more. Harrison is a team member and Electronic Music Designer for Strange Cranium Productions. With Strange Cranium, Harrison has led projects you can currently catch on Broadway, such as The Last Five Years, and Floyd Collins.
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Recent credits include Music Director for the U.S. National Tour of Shrek the Musical, where Harrison conducted the show nightly from Key 1. As music director, Harrison aided in the workshopping and development of this reimagined production along with the new creative team and original writers. Other credits include Playhouse Square’s production of Bare (Music Director) and The Sound of Music presented by The Cleveland Orchestra (Associate Music Director). Recent orchestration credits include the revival of Songs From an Unmade Bed at 54 Below (MD and additional orchestrations), Borden a new musical in development by John Viggiano and Cavan Hendron (Co-Orchestrator), and Lighthouse, an original musical by Veronica Mansour and Abs Wilson (copyist and additional orchestrations). Harrison's music direction and orchestration work has been featured at venues such as the Lexington Theatre Company, the Clinton Area Showboat Theatre, and the Beck Center for the Arts.
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With a Bachelor of Music in Music Direction from Baldwin Wallace University, Harrison has a diverse background in conducting, piano performance, music technology, vocal performance, and vocal pedagogy. Harrison is the recipient of the 2022 international John and Mary Virginia Foncannon Choral Conducting Award and the 2021 Betty Lou Scandling Hubin Award for Music Technology.