Cole D. Swanson, PhD

Collaborative Musicianship Experience

Assistant Musical Director, UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Musical Theater, Chapel Hill, NC: Something Rotten (Wayne and Karey Kirkpatrick, Spring 2024)

Assistant Musical Director, Durham Savoyards, Durham, NC: The Gondoliers (Gilbert & Sullivan, Spring 2024)

Music Director and Chorusmaster, Paradox Opera, Raleigh, NC: Amahl and the Night Visitors (Menotti, January 2024)

Freelance Performer, Accompanist, and Vocal Coach; Recent Performances: 

• Chapel Hill School of Musical Arts student recitals, Spring 2023
• Durham Savoyards, Durham, NC: Yeoman of the Guard (Gilbert & Sullivan, Spring 2023), The Pirates of Penzance (Gilbert & Sullivan, Spring 2022), Patience (Gilbert & Sullivan, Spring 2021, virtual), The Mikado (Gilbert & Sullivan, Spring 2019), A Tribute to Durham Then and Now (Durham 150 Celebrations, Fall 2019)
• Stone Soup Theatre Company, Chapel Hill, NC: Cabaret (Kander and Ebb, Fall 2023), Ride the Cyclone (Richmond and Maxwell, Spring 2023), Into the Woods (Sondheim and Lapine, Fall 2022), Something Rotten (Wayne and Karey Kirkpatrick, Fall 2021)
• Justice Theater Project, Raleigh, NC: Caroline or Change (Kushner & Tesori, Spring 2019)
• Chorus Pro Musica, Boston, MA: Journeys (March 2016) and Of Thee I Sing (George & Ira Gershwin, May 2017)

Assistant Conductor and Accompanist, Tufts University Choirs (2015 – 2017); major works by Mozart, Vivaldi, Vaughan Williams

Vocal Coach and Accompanist, St. Olaf College Lyric Theater Troupe (2013 – 2015); Albert Herring (Benjamin Britten), Fabrizio’s Comet (James McKeel, World Premiere), 25^th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (William Finn)

Composer and Music Director, St. Olaf Theater Department’s Production of Cymbeline (Shakespeare) at Kelsey Theater, St. Olaf College (February 2015); original score of incidental music and songs after Shakespeare’s text

Bass Section Leader, St. Olaf Chapel Choir (2014 – 2015; choir tenure 2012 – 2015)