DAVID SISCO

David and Laura Josepher (authors of "Mastering College Musical Theatre Auditions") will present 4 college audition workshops at the 2019 NYSTEA Conference for high school theatre students and teachers, located in the Catskills. For more information, click here.

David co-authored "Cinderella Meets Cendrillion: Musical Theater and Opera Living Under the Same Roof," which is currently available in the November/December issue of the Journal of Singing (Volume 75, No. 2). 

David will teach a 1-day workshop at Ingraham High School in Seattle on Saturday, November 10 from 9 AM - 5 PM. Limited space is available. Contract Stevie Kallos (slkallos@aol.com) for more information. Contact David (dwsisco@hotmail.com) for a private coaching. 

David Sisco and Laura Josepher will coach talented junior and senior high school students and sign copies of their book "Mastering College Musical Theatre Auditions" (available on Amazon) at Drama Book Shop (250 W. 40th Street) on Saturday, September 22 from 2-4 PM. For more information, click here.

David Sisco and Laura Josepher will join forces with Marc Tumminelli of Broadway Workshop for a 2-day College Audition Workshop, August 11-12 in New York City. The workshop will feature private coachings, mock auditions, and a discussion with parents and student about how everyone can get on the same page to help the student be successful during audition season. There are only 16 slots for this highly individualized workshop. Click here for more details. 

David will return to Wagner College this Spring to musical direct HAIR, directed by Darren Lee. Previously, David musical directed LA CAGE and SMALL TOWN STORY at the college and is looking forward to returning to work with the talented students and faculty. For more information, click here. 

Tom Gualtieri and David celebrate over 14 years of collaboration with a concert of their new songs at 54 Below on Wednesday, January 10 @ 9:30 PM. To watch the video from teh concert, click here.

David is honored to lead ANATS' (Australian National Association of Teachers of Singing) first webinar for voice teachers in Australia on Monday, November 6. The topic is "Teaching Contemporary Musical Theatre." The session will be available on David's YouTube page after the event. 

David is thrilled to have baritone Michael Kelly and pianist Marc Peloquin perform his rarely-heard song cycle "Six Dennis Rhodes Poems on Peloquin's upcoming KeyedUp Concert Series Recital on Saturday, October 28 at 8 PM at the Tenri Cultural Institute. The recital celebrates the music of Tom Cipullo, who is a champion of vocal writing. David is honored to be part of the series. For more information, please click here. 

David has had the pleasure of teaching voice for a 3-week workshop run by Taipei Performing Arts Center, August 28 - September 17. You can read more about his experience by reading this blog. 

David Sisco and Laura Josepher have just released their first book, "Mastering College Musical Theatre Auditions: Sounds Advice for the Student, Teacher, and Parent." The book will walk readers through every step of the audition process, from figuring out where to audition and choosing audition material to deciding where to attend." To purchase your copy, click here.

David Sisco and Laura Josepher (owners of ContemporaryMusicalTheatre.com) will soon be releasing their new book, "Mastering College Musical Theatre Auditions: Sound Advice for the Student, Teacher, and Parent." The book is a comprehensive resource for high school students preparing for college auditions, as well as guiding advice for their teachers and parents. The book will be available for purchase on Amazon.com and ContemporaryMusicalTheatre.com. Stay tuned for more details!

David is proud to musical direct LA CAGE at Wagner College, April 20-30. For performance times and tickets, please click here.

David will appear as part of a panel discussion entitled "Cinderella Meets Cendrillon: Musical Theatre & Opera Living Under the Same Roof" with Allen Henderson, Jennifer McQuade, Mark McQuade and Norman Spivey. The conference will take place in Stockholm August 2-6. More information can be found here.

David has been invited to musical direct LA CAGE AUX FOLLES at Wagner College, directed by Rusty Curcio. Performances will be on campus from April 20-30. More details to come!

The entire score for Marymount Manhattan College's 2015 production of SPRING AWAKENING (the play) directed by Kevin Connell is now available on soundcloud.com. Written by David Sisco, it features performances by beloved Broadway cellist Mairi Dorman-Phaneuf.

Alexandra Foucard & David Sisco bring the Comes Love Duo to Bocce in Wellfleet on Cape Cod on Saturday, September 24 from 6-10 PM. A wonderful Italian restaurant, you can find more information here. Look for our return next season!

David Sisco and Alexandra Foucard (Comes Love Duo) will perform at Tin Pan Alley on Friday, 8/5 & Saturday, 8/6 from 9 PM - midnight and Sunday, 8/7 at The Red Inn. For more information, please visit www.comesloveduo.com. 

David will lead a 2-day workshop in Sydney for the New South Wales chapter of ANATS (Australia National Assoc. of Teachers of Singing), July 2 & 3. The workshop will feature 5 presentations (21st Century Music: A New York Perspective, Investigating the Text, How to Talk to a Contemporary Composer, Vocal Health on Broadway & Beyond and Working Across Styles) along with 3 masterclasses (contemporary art song, 16-bar audition and contemporary musical theatre). For more information, please click here. 

The Stonewall Chorale will sing David's arrangement of the Cindi Lauper hit "True Colors," arranged for full chorus and piano quintet, during their annual Pride Concert this Saturday, June 11 at 7:30 PM. For more information, click here.

David is delighted to spend a day teaching the musical theatre students at Dean College on Saturday, April 23. He will give an open masterclass in the morning, followed by private coachings to the seniors in the afternoon. 

After an intense week of rehearsals, David will perform his new revue VARIATIONS ON A THEME OF YOU with music and theatre students from Minnesota State University Moorhead. Five of the variations commissioned by MSUM feature texts about love and relationships, written by the students. For more information, click here. For tickets, click here.

Alexandra Foucard and David Sisco bring COMES LOVE back to The Triad on Thursday & Friday February 18 & 19 at 7 PM as part of the First International Cabaret Festival. Tickets are available online by clicking here.

David Sisco and Alexandra Foucard bring their duo back to headline at The Triad as part of the First International Cabaret Festival of New York. Tickets for their shows on Thursday, 2/18 and Friday 2/19 @ 7 PM will go on sale shortly. To see the duo's performance at The Triad this past Fall, click here.

David has been invited to present "Vocal Health on Broadway and Beyond" at the 2016 NATS Conference in Chicago this July. Previously, Sisco presented a poster paper about what is now ContemporaryMusicalTheatre.com at the 2012 conference in Orlando. The presentation will focus on how performers, musical directors, casting directors and ENTs prevent and manage vocal damage caused by musicals on Broadway in London's West End and in Melbourne, Australia. 

David will be part of the kick-off to Tune in Time's new season at the York Theatre on Monday, August 31st @ 7:30 PM. Dubbed the “Musical Theater Olympics,” 3 teams of composers and lyricists who’ve never worked together are forced to collaborate – and to beat the clock. Their task? They must write a song from a new Broadway musical, the title of which is picked from a hatful of audience suggestions – in the style determined by a spin of the dreaded Genre Wheel. Can they write a TUNE IN TIME?  David won the game on his first appearance. Come see how he fairs this time. For more information, click here.

David was interviewed for Julliard's American Songmakers Project alongside some incredible composers, singers and pianists. Read more here.

Nautilus Music-Theater, based in Minneapolis-St. Paul, will feature songs from Tom Gualtieri & David Sisco's FALLING TO EARTH on their annual "Rough Cuts" series on June 1 & 2. For more information, click here. For more information on FALLING TO EARTH, visit the Gualtieri & Sisco website.

Soprano Sarah Hawkey will perform "Give Me a Song" at Marble Church's Next Door recital, entitled New Song in New York. For more information, click here.

Manhattan Girls Chorus, under the direction of Michelle Oesterle, will sing selections from Sisco's "I AM" at the Women in the World Summit at the David H. Koch Theater on Thursday, April 23. Based on the girls' words, "I AM" explores what their names mean to them, their struggles with being bullied and what they dream of for themselves, their family and friends. The piece will be performed in whole with a new movement on May 20 at MGC's annual gala. www.manhattangirlschorus.org

David recently completed the fourth and final movement in a piece entitled "I AM," commissioned by Manhattan Girls Chorus. Based on a libretto of the girls words, the piece will be premiered with chamber orchestra at MGC's Spring Gala on Wednesday, May 20. For more information, click here.