An award-winning Broadway music director will be featured in a new Peace Center artist-in-residence program providing performance art education to area students, the performing arts center announced Oct. 21.
The program’s first resident artist is Doug Oberhamer, a Broadway musical director, arranger and vocal coach based in New York City.
He will be in Greenville through Oct. 25 and will conduct a variety of workshops focusing on different aspects of musical theater. These in-classroom workshops will work with Greenville County middle schools, high schools and the Fine Arts Center.
A sample of the in-classroom workshop experiences Oberhamer is leading include:
- The Broadway Pit Orchestra Experience — for high school band, orchestra students
- Professional Perspective — for middle and high school instrumental/vocals
- Acting the Song — for middle school theatre/drama/voice students
Funded by donations to the Peace Center Foundation, resident artists will typically be engaged for one week to one month, depending on their availability and focus of instruction.
The program takes place in schools and on the Peace Center campus. For more information about the Peace Center and its community engagement and arts education programs, visit peacecenter.org.
