Michele M. Ferdinand, Music Director & Pianist,
has been involved in music since age three. She’s played many musical
theatre productions including favorites such as Falsettos,
The Jingle Man, Fantasticks, My Way, Ragtime, Closer than Ever, Stephen
Sondheim's Assassins, Company, Side by Side, Into The Woods, and A Little Night Music, Yeston's Phantom, Gershwin's Crazy for You, and a two-piano
version of Frank Loesser’s The Most Happy Fella.
She has also music-directed many productions at theatres and schools
including over eighty shows during a five-year tenure at Bucks County
Playhouse.
Accompanying is her first love, and she has played for singers and
instrumentalists in the quad-state area with theatres such as City Theater
Company, Bristol Riverside, Walnut Street, Prince Music Theatre, Media Theatre,
Philadelphia Area Repertory Theatre, Three Little Bakers, Candlelight, and
Young People’s Theatre Workshop. She also plays for, sings in, and
music directs cabarets, featuring a series with Michael Moeller and Anna
Hentz in Bucks County. Michele has also spent time onstage in Chess, The
Mystery of Edwin Drood, The Importance of Being
Earnest, Follies, Into the Woods, Pippin, & The Most Happy Fella.
Over the last eight years, she's enjoyed teaching voice & piano at a studio
in Media where she’s also laid tracks on several CDs--most recently Do You Hear What I Hear, a holiday
album of students created exclusively to
benefit The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
She is also choir director/pianist/organist for St. John’s Tinicum Lutheran
Church.