Musical Director
Dan is a musical director, arranger and orchestrator as well as a multi-instrumentalist. He plays piano, clarinet, saxophone and flute. Dan trained at Leeds Conservatoire on the Classical course specialising in clarinet and subsequently at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts on the MA Musical Direction course. He now enjoys a varied career within the theatre and music industry working on musicals, plays, cabarets as well as with choirs.
Dan also works with young people having facilitated youth projects with the Bernie Grant Arts Centre and Hackney Music Development Trust, as well as teaching at renowned drama schools such as Italia Conti, Arts Ed, Bird College and Momentum Performance Arts Academy. He has also worked with The Royal Shakespeare Company and outside of the theatre Dan also leads the Kingsley Napley office choir.
Some of his Musical Director credits include: Cinderella (Chequer Mead Theatre); 'JILTED: A New Musical' (Irish Cultural Centre); FAME (Bird College); Beauty and the Beast (Chequer Mead Theatre); What’s Wrong With Me? (The Green Room Theatre / The Lion & The Unicorn); Snow White (Chequer Mead Theatre); Mother Goose (Bridge House Theatre/Tour); Aladdin (Chequer Mead Theatre); Sweet Charity (Momentum Performing Arts Academy); Footloose (The Carriageworks Theatre); The Wedding Singer (The Carriageworks Theatre).
Benjie del Rosario
Pianist
Benjie was born in London and trained at Trinity College of Music. He began his career as a clarinettist and holds positions with St.Paul’s Sinfonia and the clarinet quartet Clariphonics. Later on he undertook private studies as a tenor and it is as a singer that he predominantly works. His credits include - Yakusidé Madama Butterfly, Beppe I Pagliacci (Opera de Baugé), Boy 1 Trouble in Tahiti, Macduff Macbeth (Opera South East), Monostatos Magic Flute and Canio I Pagliacci (Hampstead Garden Opera), 1st Armed Man Magic Flute (St. Paul’s Opera), Goro Madama Butterfly (East meets West),The Emperor Turandot (OperaMakers/Iskander),Nelson Porgy & Bess, Farty Excursions of Mr Broucek (Grange Park Opera), Rybar Katya Kabanova, Drunken Cossack Mazeppa. He is currently in his 7th season with Grange Park Opera.
Benjie has been involved with Woolwich Singers for over 12 years and he enjoys his role as the house pianist and the repertoire that he gets to accompany.
