Included on the program are selections from RPT's Ossessione!
Welcome!
RICHARD PEARSON THOMAS is a composer, pianist and lyricist whose works have been performed by the Boston Pops, Covent Garden Festival, Houston Grand Opera, Encompass New Opera Theatre, Banff Centre, Skylight Opera Theatre, Westchester Philharmonic Orchestra, Riverside Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir, and California State Fullerton Opera Theatre. His songs have been sung in Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, Wigmore Hall, and before the U.S. Congress. He is on faculty at Columbia University Teachers College and has taught at Yale.
“Mr. Thomas has listened acutely to the world around him. He can bounce with nervous metric energy or sing simply …” The New York Times
If you're looking for vocal music by Richard Pearson Thomas, many songs are available at Classical Vocal Rep.
Instrumental and orchestral music are available at Lauren Keiser Music.
Please check out my comic opera A Wake or a Wedding!
Previous events
WORLD PREMIERE (finally!): Floating the Canyon for piano trio
WORLD PREMIERE: Floating the Canyon for piano trio
Mirror Visions Ensemble: The Disappearing Art of Letter Writing
Musée des Arts Décoratifs, 107 Rue de Rivoli, Paris Île-de-France, 75001 France
An exploration of letter writing, featuring letters by Abraham Lincoln, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Stephane Mallarmé, and Gertrude Stein. Tom Cipullo's Guide to Letter Writing will be performed, along with works by Gwyneth Walker, Cole Porter, Wolfgang Erich Korngold, Dominick Argento, Richard Pearson Thomas and Christopher Berg.
Original music for Chekov's play composed for this production by RPT
Original music for Chekov's play composed for this production by RPT
Original music for Chekov's play composed for this production by RPT
Mirror Visions Ensemble: The Disappearing Art of Letter Writing
The Sheen Center for Thought and Culture, 18 Bleecker Street, New York, NY
An exploration of letter writing, featuring letters by Abraham Lincoln, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Stephane Mallarmé, and Gertrude Stein. Tom Cipullo's Guide to Letter Writing will be performed, along with works by Gwyneth Walker, Cole Porter, Wolfgang Erich Korngold, Dominick Argento, Richard Pearson Thomas and Christopher Berg.
Craig Tessler sings Weill and Hollander with arrangements by RPT for cabaret band.
Bruce Rameker returns as Nero after the sold-out preview!
Tammy Hensrud performs RPT's "Singing like the larks" with the Bemidji Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Beverly Everett
Selected Walt Whitman settings by Richard Pearson Thomas, Martin Hennessy, and Ned Rorem as well as works by by Philip Lasser and John Corigliano
A quasi-operatic Vaudeville Cabaret Show starring Imperator Nero Claudius Divi Claudius filius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (as incarnated by Bruce Rameker) WORLD PREMIERE!! $10 Cover, 2 drink minimum, cash only
John Muriello sings RPT's new Cabaret Songs and Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol Abridged and Condensed on a program including works by Wolf and Ravel
The Hot Box Girls do Dirty Music in Vienna!
Soprano Darci Bultema and clarinetist Audrey Miller join RPT for the premiere of Life on the Edge as part of International Clarinet Association ClarinetFest®2019
Hot Jazz Burlesque Revue and the European premiere of Dirty Music
Fourth Coast Ensemble performs Fish 'N Chicks along with other composers' works on a field trip to the zoo!