Glen Roven

Glen Roven is an Emmy Award-winning composer, lyricist, and conductor. One of his notable compositions include a violin concerto based on the children's book The Runaway Bunny.

Biography

Stage career

While in high school, Roven worked as a rehearsal pianist for Pippin. After graduation, he attended Columbia University and worked on the New York productions of Very Good Eddie, The Madwoman of CPW, Really Rosie, A Party with Betty Comden and Adolph Green, She Loves Me, and Woman of the Year. At 19, Roven was the original musical director of Sugar Babies on Broadway starring Ann Miller and Mickey Rooney.

He arranged Patti LuPone’s one woman Broadway show and was the co-musical supervisor for Liza Minnelli's , Stepping Out, at Radio City Music Hall. He was a contributing composer for the Off-Broadway hit, A... My Name Is Alice, and wrote the scores for John Guare's Lydie Breeze, directed by Louis Malle, and Gardenia, directed by Karel Reisz. He also composed the scores for Larry Gelbart's Mastergate, and Christopher Isherwood's A Meeting by the River, on Broadway, and Got to Get Away.

His musical, Heart's Desire, premiered at the Cleveland Play House. It was performed subsequently for one night at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London's West end directed by Simon Callow.

On May 28, 2008, Norman's Ark opened the Los Angeles New Musical Festival and was directed by Peter Schneider and produced by Maria S. Schlatter. Roven has two musicals scheduled for Broadway: Dr. Seuss' The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T and Pandora's Box, both written by Maria S. Schlatter and directed by Gary Halvorson.

Conducting

He conducted President Bill Clinton's two inaugural concerts as well as President George W. Bush's two inaugural concerts. He also conducted and arranged Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis, Jr.'s last TV appearances. He also conducted the TV Specials, Night of 100 Stars, Night of 100 Stars II, and Night of 100 Stars III.

He made his Israeli conducting debut in 2001 conducting the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. He has conducted the National Symphony, the Seattle Symphony, the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, the IKO, the Munich Philharmonic, and the Radio Luxembourg Orchestra.

Roven has also arranged and conducted for Julie Andrews, Anita Baker, Kathleen Battle, Michael Bolton, Tevin Campbell, Ray Charles, Plácido Domingo, Ella Fitzgerald, Aretha Franklin, Kenny G., Gregory Hines, Bob Hope, Hootie and the Blowfish, Whitney Houston, Michael Jackson, Bernadette Peters, Luther Vandross, and Stevie Wonder.

Other ventures

For children, Roven produced the Sharon, Lois & Bram album, Candles, Snow and Mistletoe (1993), which was also at the Palace Theatre, New York. He also wrote the theme the 1990 television series The Baby-Sitters Club.

Roven served as a contributing author to the books Games We Play, published by Simon & Schuster, and City Secrets.

External links

• Official website
• Glen Roven at IMDb
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• BroadwayWorld.com interview with Glen Roven, March 5, 2008