Kurt Crowley

Pianist, Music Director & Arranger

(c) Kurt Crowley

Kurt

ABOUT ME

As as music director and keyboard player, previous work in theater includes Hamilton (B’way and Public Theater), Freestyle Love Supreme (B’way and off-B’way), Bring It On (B’way), and In The Heights (National Tour). Executive music producer of Tick, Tick…Boom! (Netflix) and vocal supervisor on In the Heights (Warner Bros). He is currently music supervising Hamilton in Australia and Germany, and he originated the European tour of Carmen La Cubana, as well as contributing arrangements. He has done music direction and arrangements for the Vail Dance Festival, and contributed dance arrangements to the Kennedy Center Honors and Somewhere (Hartford Stage). During the shutdown in 2020, he was co-arranger and music producer for Bolero Juilliard in 2020, conceived and produced the piece Variations on America, feauturing Yo-Yo Ma and Chris Thile, and produced many Hamilton-adjacent video arrangements for GOTV and morale-boosting purposes. In the past, he has written musical arrangements for numerous cabarets in NYC, and penned arrangements and orchestrations that aired on the LOGO Trailblazer Awards and Sesame Street, as well as serving music director for One Thousand Nights and One Day off-Bway, and as co-orchestrator.. After studying Music and Comparative Religion at Harvard University, he received a Paine Fellowship to study classical and devotional music in North India.


TEDx Talk

How can a good musical "mashup" help you embrace diverse experiences in your life? How can music prove helpful to a variety of life circumstances? This talk shows how a combination of melodies can aid one in taking on a blended life. Kurt was raised in Helena, Montana, and from an early age studied acting and music.

In January 2016, I was invited to give a talk at TEDx Helena. I decided to do my talk on "musical mashups" and writing this helped me articulate and synthesize a lot of the ways I think about mashups, and music in general.


Montana public radio