ABOUT THE SPRING 2012 TYLER YOUNG ARTIST

Tom Getty

 

Accompanist and vocal coach Thomas Getty recently conducted Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd for Kean University in New Jersey, where he also provided music direction for The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee and West Side Story. Mr. Getty has been a regular music staff member at Central City Opera in Colorado for 16 summer seasons, accompanying audition classes for Artistic Director Emeritus John Moriarty, movement classes, opera scenes, preparing main stage productions, music directing the chamber opera The Face On The Barroom Floor, and providing surtitles for main stage performances; he was honored last summer with the Adelaide Bishop Award for meritorious service to the company.

In the past, he has served as principal coach for Utah Symphony and Opera in Salt Lake City and Anchorage Opera in Alaska (later promoted to Assistant Artistic Director); he has also provided music accompaniment for Pittsburgh Opera Center, Rutgers University, and American Repertory Ballet Company. Originally from Metuchen NJ, Mr. Getty holds a Bachelor degree from Rutgers University Mason Gross School of the Arts, and a Master degree in coaching and accompanying from Westminster Choir College of Rider University. Mr. Getty is the Resident Coach of Opera on the James Tyler Young Artist Program.