About this Artist

TED SPERLING has maintained an active and successful career in the theater and concert worlds for thirty-five years. He is the Artistic Director of MasterVoices, music director of the recent Broadway productions of Floyd Collins and My Fair Lady, and leads the NYU Broadway Orchestra, training the next generation of Broadway musicians.

Mr. Sperling won the 2005 Tony and Drama Desk Awards for his orchestrations of The Light in the Piazza, for which he was also music director. Other Broadway and off-Broadway credits include Fiddler on the Roof, The King and I, South Pacific, Guys and Dolls, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Full Monty, A Man of No Importance, A New Brain, Floyd Collins, and Sunday in the Park with George. Mr. Sperling was an original cast member of the Broadway musical, Titanic. He has directed the premieres of four off-Broadway musicals: Red Eye of Love, The Other Josh Cohen, See What I Wanna See, and Striking 12.

Mr. Sperling has an active concert career, both as conductor and director. Highlights include Show Boat with the NY Philharmonic; The Pirates of Penzance, A Chorus Line and Cabaret for the Public Theater; Lady in the Dark, Of Thee I Sing, The Grapes of Wrath, Babes in Toyland, Dido and Aeneas, and Orfeo ed Euridice, all for MasterVoices. Guest conducting engagements include Iceland Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, Houston Grand Opera, Toronto Symphony and San Diego Symphony.