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John Hay Music - Mr. Warrender |
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Mr.
Warrender has composed and arranged music for The Seattle Symphony, The
Bellevue Philharmonic and for choral groups around the world.
His best-known theater work, Das
Barbecu!, a comic re-telling of Wagner’s Ring Cycle with five
actors, was commissioned by Seattle Opera in 1991 and was produced
Off-Broadway in 1994. Other shows
include The Texas Chainsaw Manicurist, The January
Book, Blankity-Blank, Lights, World's
Fair Cruise, Happypants!, and The Plexiglas
Slipper. With over fifty shows on his resume, Scott
has extensive musical direction and compositional credits at such
theaters as A Contemporary Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Empty
Space Theater, Dallas Theater Center, Cleveland Opera, Center Stage in
Baltimore and The Goodspeed Opera House in Connecticut.
For the 1992 Olympics, Scott musically directed the US entry into the
Cultural Arts Festival in Barcelona – Labor
of Love, an original musical, combining a Japanese acting & drumming
ensemble, Cajun musicians, Catalan Street performers and Seattle actors.
The song he co-wrote with Joss Whedon, “My Lullaby”
was one of five songs featured in Disney’s
The Lion King II: Simba’s Pride.
In 1993, he founded and directed The
Washingtonians!, a 120 member chorus that performed in Seattle from
1993 to 2002. In the
spring of 2005, he was one of three composers whose music was featured
by the nationally acclaimed Northwest Boychoir in Uniquely Northwest. He
is thrilled to be teaching at John Hay Elementary, a school with a reputation
for excellence.
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