DAVID CULLEN

ORCHESTRATOR

David Cullen studied composition with Howard Ferguson and Richard Rodney Bennett at the Royal Academy of Music in the 1960s. Subsequently he has worked as a keyboard player, composer, record producer and arranger. He is best known as the orchestrator of musicals in London and New York, particularly those of Andrew Lloyd Webber – Cats, Starlight Express, Song & Dance, Aspects of Love, Sunset Boulevard, By Jeeves, Whistle Down the Wind, The Beautiful Game, The Phantom of the Opera, The Woman in White and, most recently, Love Never Dies. He received the New York Drama Desk Award for the orchestrations of The Phantom of the Opera, was nominated again for Aspects of Love, and was nominated for a Tony for his re-orchestration of Tchaikovsky’s music for the Broadway production of Swan Lake. Other musicals he has orchestrated include Abbacadabra, Children of Eden, Shogun the Musical, Stepping Out, Edna – the Spectacle and some London revivals – Can-Can, The Baker’s Wife, Carmen Jones and the Donmar Warehouse production of Parade. Records he has arranged include the America album by the King’s Singers, Christmas with Kiri by Kiri te Kanawa, and I Am What I Am by Shirley Bassey. He both arranged and produced the albums Music of the Night by Cantabile and Lloyd Webber Plays Lloyd Webber by Julian Lloyd Webber. He has composed music for several UK television series, including Relative Strangers, Surgical Spirit and The Bretts. He re-orchestrated sections of Jesus Christ Superstar, Cats and Evita for the movie and video productions. He provided orchestrations for the Disney productions of Geppetto and Cinderella and the movie of The Phantom of the Opera. He recently re-orchestrated Aspects of Love for the Menier Chocolate Factory revival. His recent collaboration with Paul Carrack on the album A Different Hat has generally gained five-star reviews.

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