About Marc Irwin

-Broadway pianist/conductor for productions including The Rink, Cats, Romance, Romance, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, City of Angels, Sunday in the Park with George, Jerome Robbins’ Broadway and Crazy for You.
1983-1988 Keyboardist and Sound Designer with Harry Belafonte
1986-1988 Crossings guitar/piano duo released Crossings of the Spirit and Child’s Play for Iris Records.
2000 received DMA in composition from the Peabody Institute, Johns Hopkins University
1993-2003 Assistant Musical Director and pianist at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.
1999-2017 Pianist with the political satire theatre ensemble The Capitol Steps.
2010 Handmade Music guitar/piano duo released Handmade Music
2007/2011 Urbnergy, jazz trio, released two albums, a self-titled album and Three Of A Kind
2013 Solo piano EP, A Few Moment More for Arabesque Recordings
2014/2016 Composer for Vagabond Players’ productions of Art by Yasmina Reza and David Kramer’s The Normal Heart
2017 – 2024 Composer for The Classic Theatre of Maryland productions of The Glass Menagerie, Treasure Island, Our Town, A Comedy of Errors, Twelfth Night and Pride and Prejudice.
2011 – 2023 Music Director and Arranger for Daniel Schwait, releasing albums Blame It On My Youth in 2016, Piano Songs, in 2017 and singles It All Fades Away and Good Thing Going/Don’t Think Twice in 2019.
2014 – current MIQ, the Marc Irwin Quintet Marc released self-titled album in 2019, Au Privave, Pandemonium 20, and A Child Is Born in 2023
2020 – current Curator for Member Composer concerts for The Musicians Club of New York including premiere of Fantasy for Clarinet and Piano in 2023
2022 – current Music Director of the Baltimore Hebrew Congregation curating the Music and Meaning concert series including premiere of String Quartet No 2 in 2023 by the Bergamot Quartet

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