Sarah de Tute
Sarah is a musical directing graduate of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Much of her early career was spent in classical music. However, Sarah fell in love with the theatre and has since worked nationally and internationally as a musical director/pianist/composer and arranger.
Recent theatre credits include: Good Night, Mad Night, Strange Night A Cabaret (The Playhouse, Derry NI). Sweet Charity (The New Athenaeum Theatre, Glasgow). Kinky Boots (Storyhouse Theatre, Chester). Little Shop of Horrors (The Playhouse, Derry NI). A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Grosvenor Park Open Air). Beyond Belief, The Life and Mission of John Hume (The Guildhall, Derry NI). The Producers (The Playhouse, Derry, NI). Commercial credits include: CATS (Really Useful Group). Ultimate Broadway, Shanghai (GWB Entertainment). Strictly Ballroom (Global Creatures). Because of You (SimG Productions). Evita (Leeds Grand Theatre). Joseph (Bill Kenwright limited). Showboat (David Ian Productions). Night of a Thousand Voices (The Royal Albert Hall, London). Sunday Night at The Theatre Royal (Drury Lane Theatre, London). Other theatre credits include: Love of a Nightingale (Ciromedia). The Coup, Coup, Club, (Darren Clark, Slunglow, Leeds). Sweeney Todd, Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella, Assassins, Into the Woods (RCS).
Sarah has conducted at The Bridgewater Hall, The Sage, Sheffield City Hall and at the SECC for BBC children in need. She has recorded for BBC Radio with The Orchestra of Opera North and for broadcasts for Australian and Asian Television. Sarah has also written several scores during theatre residencies both here and in America and has been a visiting musical director of Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, Arts Ed, London and Leeds Conservatoire and a mentor for The MA and PGDip musical direction programmes at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Sarah is passionate about new writing and has been on the creative team for many workshops for new work in development. She is thrilled once again to be a tutor for the NODA summer school, which always promises to be an exciting and incredibly rewarding week for all involved.
Session: Discovering the Golden Age of Musical Theatre
Spend a week practically immersing yourself in the riches of musical theatre giants as you develop knowledge and performance skills in singing, text, lyric, character and song interpretation.
This course champions the innovative creative genius of the writers and composers of what are often referred to as ‘legit” musicals. With a director and musical director, you will discover and celebrate this vital, informative chapter in the long history of musical theatre and its many forms.
You will tackle genre defining works from the likes of Kern, Gershwin, Berlin, Loesser, Lerner and Lowe, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Meredith Wilson, Bernstein and all their respective librettists and book writers.
During the week you will:
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Work with a director and musical director in a rehearsal format on songs and scripts
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Explore, in-depth, the storytelling mechanisms found in an expansive selection of musical theatre repertoire
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Learn and employ multifaceted, fresh approaches to performing, understanding and realising classical material in a space
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Develop your confidence, creativity and technical ability as a performer
This course welcomes singers/actors who gravitate towards character driven storytelling, who love a performance challenge, who are comfortable with movement/staging and who enjoy working in a supportive and energetic rehearsal room.