ABOUT

Douglas Levine is a pianist, composer, arranger, music director and educator based in his hometown of Pittsburgh.

Original scores for musical theater include:  Claws Out! (City Theatre,) Jazz Time! (Pittsburgh Cultural Trust,) Mercy Train (Microscopic Opera Company,) Eastburn Avenue, Mother Courage and Peer Gynt (Playhouse REP,) Stuff  (Fuzzy Boundary Productions,)  Losing It (Raymond Laine Memorial One-Acts,) Colorfast  (Pittsburgh International Children’s Theater Festival) and Shakespeare Street  (Playhouse Junior.)

Original scores for dance include: Deadend (Attack Theatre,) Mimoun (Pennsylvania Dance Theatre,) Impressions at the Shore (Kevin Maloney Dance,) and Taking Off (Kobak/Levine Dance.)

Doug wrote and arranged the incidental scores for writer/director Tomé Cousins’ productions of M33 and Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Other incidental scores for theater include: Our Class, Jane Eyre, Pride and Prejudice, The Shaughraun and The False Servant (Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theatre,) and Intimate Apparel (City Theatre.)

Other commissions for original music or arrangements have come from a wide range of ensembles including: Pittsburgh Public Theater, Dreams of Hope, Gateway to the Arts, Shakespeare in the Schools, Point Park Conservatory Company, Pitt Repertory Theatre, Renaissance City Women’s Choir, Junior Mendelssohn Choir, Pittsburgh Musical Theater, WQED-FM, The Warhol Museum and Opera Theatre of Pittsburgh. For vocalist Daphne Alderson, Doug has arranged shows featuring the music of Oscar Hammerstein, Edith Piaf, Judy Garland, Joni Mitchell and Buddy Holly.

His original music for theater and dance was included in the Prague Quadrennial 3rd International Theatre Soundscore and Music Composition Exhibition. Doug is a 2011 recipient of City Theatre’s Frankel Award for artistic achievement. He was a co-winner of Carnegie Mellon’s first annual Silberman Prize for chamber music.

He is a proud member of ASCAP.