Assistant Director

ALVA NELSON

Musical Director/Pianist

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Theater Experience / Musical Director • Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill • Bickford Theatre – Morristown, NJ 2009 • Violet (Assistant Musical Director) • Savannah College of Art & Design 2008 • If This Hat Could Talk (Ass’t MD) • National Tour 2007 • Sam Cooke, Forever Mr. Soul • Milwaukee Repertory Co. 2006 • Delaware Theatre Company 2006 • I Can’t Stop Loving You (Assistant MD) • El Dorado Casino – Reno, NV 2005 • Black Broadway • National Tour 2004 • Love, Langston • Great Lakes Theatre Festival – Cleveland, OH 2002 • A Brief History of White Music • Milwaukee Repertory Co. 2000

Other shows either as MD or Pit musician:

Ain’t Misbehavin’; Dreamgirls; Purlie; Mama, I Want To Sing; West Side Story; Hallelujah, Baby!; Raisin;

If These Shoes Could Talk; I Ain’t Yo’ Uncle (A New Jack Swing Revisionist “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”); Remember My Name (The Alberta Hunter Story); Journey Beyond The West(The New Adventures Of Monkey);

DISCOGRAPHY

• A Second Chance (producer) - Dorothy Leigh (Whitley Productions, Inc.) • Intimate Moments (producer) - Dorothy Leigh (Whitley Productions, Inc.) • Soul Eyes (producer/artist) - Alva Nelson (Kilosi Keys Music) • Evans Door – Charley Gerard (Gerard & Sarazin Records)

• Another Chance to Give – Genie Swinson (New York Organ Donor Foundation) • Redeemed (producer) - Juanita Fleming (BAKA Records) • Blessed Be Your Name – Juanita Fleming (BAKA Records) • Karma – Robin Eubanks (Polydor Records)

• Plaxico – Lonnie Plaxico (Muse Records) • Country Fried Chicken – Bubbha Thomas & The Lightmen (Lightnin’ Records) • Texas Thunder Soul – Kashmere Stage Band (Now Again Records)

AWARDS

• Thelonious Monk International Jazz Piano Competition, National Endowment for the Arts

MEMBERSHIPS

• The Grammy Foundation, Actor’s Equity Association, American Society of Composers, Authors, & Publishers, American Federation of Musicians, Local 802 New York City,

EDUCATION

• Sam Houston State University – Bachelor of Music