Saul
Spangenberg studied music composition with David Del Tredici, the
composer-in -residence of the New York Philharmonic, and the late
John Colman who served as pianist to Kurt Jooss and George Balanchine.
Saul received his Masters Degree in music from the City University
of New York in 1990. For over twenty-five years, he has worked as
composer and pianist in many styles of music, including the traditional
dance music repertoire of jazz, tap, modern, and ballet. As music
director and composer he has created works for piano, orchestra, computer,
and mixed live and recorded media. His musical theatre works for the
O'Neill Theatre Center, Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre, and Theatre
for the New City have been presented and toured in New York, Los Angeles,
and at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC. Saul was the first musical
director of the American Dancemachine (a dance troupe dedicated to
the preservation of Broadway choreography) and worked closely with
it's founder, the late Lee Theodore. For eight years he was Assistant
Professor Dance and Music at Marymount Manhattan College, as well
as the music instructor for the professional training program of the
Dance Theatre of Harlem. He has also taught music at the City College
of New and New York University. In addition to teaching music in the Conservatory of Dance, Saul is Assistant Dean of the Conservatory of Music at Purchase College.
Saul
Spangenberg studied music composition with David Del Tredici, the
composer-in -residence of the New York Philharmonic, and the late
John Colman who served as pianist to Kurt Jooss and George Balanchine.
Saul received his Masters Degree in music from the City University
of New York in 1990. For over twenty-five years, he has worked as
composer and pianist in many styles of music, including the traditional
dance music repertoire of jazz, tap, modern, and ballet. As music
director and composer he has created works for piano, orchestra, computer,
and mixed live and recorded media. His musical theatre works for the
O'Neill Theatre Center, Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre, and Theatre
for the New City have been presented and toured in New York, Los Angeles,
and at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC. Saul was the first musical
director of the American Dancemachine (a dance troupe dedicated to
the preservation of Broadway choreography) and worked closely with
it's founder, the late Lee Theodore. For eight years he was Assistant
Professor Dance and Music at Marymount Manhattan College, as well
as the music instructor for the professional training program of the
Dance Theatre of Harlem. He has also taught music at the City College
of New and New York University. In addition to teaching music in the Conservatory of Dance, Saul is Assistant Dean of the Conservatory of Music at Purchase College.