JASON
HOWLAND is a 1993 graduate of Williams College
with an Honors degree in Music Composition.
Last Season, Howland’s play written with
Larry Pellegrini, BLESSING IN DISGUISE,
premiered Off-Broadway. He was the musical supervisor
for Wildhorn Productions, serving as musical
director and conductor for the long running
Broadway hit JEKYLL & HYDE,
and musical supervisor for Broadway’s
THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL
and THE CIVIL WAR.
He was chosen to be the last Music Director
of the long running Broadway mega-hit,
LES MISERABLES, and had the
honor of conducting the final perfomance of
that show at the Imperial Theater. He was also
the Music Director for the Broadway bound TABOO
by Boy George, produced by Rosie
O’Donnell.
Howland has
worked as an arranger, conductor, writer and producer
on a number of recording projects including the Grammy-nominated
cast album of Jekyll & Hyde (Musical
Director/Conductor/Vocal Arranger), The
Dreams in You, for the September 11th
Fund (Producer, Composer), the Broadway cast album of
The Scarlet Pimpernel (Associate
Producer), Atlantic Records’ release of The
Civil War (Choral Conductor), the double
disk compilation album Jekyll & Hyde:
The Complete Work (Vocal Arranger), the
solo album for acclaimed international harpist
Jung Kwak (conductor), Chuck
Wagner (Producer), and Linda Eder’s
Christmas album Christmas Stays the Same
(Arranger, Vocal Arranger). He has conducted in
concert across the country for such notables as Ray
Charles, Natalie Cole, Brandy, Bebe & Cece Winans,
Carl Anderson, Linda Eder, Sebastian Bach and Davis
Gaines, and was musical director and conductor for the
opening ceremonies of 1998 The Goodwill Games held in
New York City. Howland has a co-publishing deal with
Cherry Lane Music Publishing, Inc. and is at work on
two other musicals, MARIEL
and QUICKSTEP.
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