David Duvall has received two Emmy nominations for Best Original Music for Television, the first for the KING-TV film Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs and the second for Things That Aren’t Here Anymore, a 90-minute special for KCTS. His song “You And I And The Music” won the Best Song Award at the 1989 International New Music Festival. Don’t Eat The Coleslaw, an original musical about AIDS prevention, debuted in Moscow in 1992, and was broadcast on Moscow’s First Channel and throughout Russia and Europe. He composed the scores for VAUDEVILLE: An American Masters Special and the four-part series DEATH: The Trip Of A Lifetime, broadcast nationally on the PBS network in 1993 and 1997 respectively, both of which continue to be broadcast internationally. Currently he can be heard weekly in PBS syndication playing his theme for Graham Kerr’s Gathering Place.Duvall has spent 35 years in professional theatre with over 290 productions to his credit. He has worked in a variety of capacities with such companies as Seattle Children’s Theatre, A Contemporary Theatre (ACT) in Seattle, The Montana Repertory Theatre, Tacoma Actor’s Guild, Evergreen Theatre Company, Eastside Theatre Company, Studio East, Western Washington University, CenterStage, Western Theatre Summer Stock, Tacoma Little Theatre - where he also served as Artistic Director for two years and American Revue Theatre, where he served as Artistic Director for four years. As producer, director, musical director and/or actor his varied credits include Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?, Jacques Brel..., South
Pacific, The Lion In Winter, Pippin, Grease, Romantic Comedy, The Lark, The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, Auntie Mame, The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas, My Fair Lady, Godspell, Butterflies Are Free, The Mousetrap, Animal Farm, Brigadoon, Ain’t Misbehavin’ , Into The Woods, Blithe Spirit and Little Shop Of Horrors. He has provided arrangements and musical direction for a host of original pieces by Seattle-area composers including The Texas Chainsaw Manicurist, The Hoboken Chicken Emergency, Little Lulu, Intimate Friends, Pinocchio and The Magic Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle.
As a composer/lyricist his credits include the socio-political pieces YELLOW FEVER: The Internment, GENOCIDE TRAIL: A Holocaust Unspoken and uncle tom de-constructed for The Conciliation Project, as well as seven original musicals including Holiday!, Where Is Norma Jean? and We Don’t Talk About It. He has composed incidental music for productions of Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, Ten Little Indians, The Seven Year Itch, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, Picnic, and Romeo and Juliet, among others. Duvall has also created over 60 original revues for theatre, dinner theatre, nightclub or the concert stage, including several celebrating the music of Broadway, tributes to WWII radio broadcasts, Oscar-nominated songs, music from the 1960’s, and the collected works of composers Jerome Kern, George Gershwin, Rodgers & Hart, Oscar Hammerstein II, Stephen Sondheim, Kurt Weill, Kander & Ebb, Harold Arlen and several tributes to Cole Porter, including the successful What Is This Thing Called Love?, which debuted in January 2007.
He has arranged or orchestrated commissioned works for The Tacoma Symphony Orchestra, The Seattle Children’s Chorus, The Bellevue Community Band, The Seattle Philharmonic Orchestra, The Port Angeles Symphony Orchestra, The Federal Way Symphony as well as The Madison (WI) Symphony Orchestra. Recently he created all the orchestrations and conducted the symphony for the 2-CD recording Have Yourself A Divalycious Christmas, which also included eight of his original holiday songs. He is completing work on his latest projects, Who Will Believe My Verse In Time To Come and Take All My Loves...., a two-part collection of original musical settings of 46 Shakespearean Sonnets. He is currently under commission to adapt this work into a theatre piece for Seattle Shakespeare Company, scheduled to premiere in 2010.
His credits as a professional accompanist include working with such nationally-known artists as Marni Nixon, cabaret artist Betty Rhodes and ventriloquist Ronn Lucas (“Scorch”). As musical director/pianist for the Regent Sea Cruise Ship he had the pleasure of playing/conducting nightly for famed British comedian Freddie Davies (Parrot-Face/”Funny Bones”) and magician Michael Loftus for several months. He also served as musical director/conductor for the national tour of the Broadway-bound musical Cowboy. As a solo performer he counts among his highlights opening for the acclaimed Total Experience Gospel Choir and spending three months appearing nightly at the historic El Tovar Hotel at The Grand Canyon.
David studied piano and composition for many years with renown Seattle composer Lockrem Johnson and internationally recognized concert pianist John Sundsten. He teaches privately, has served on the faculties at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, Seattle Children’s Theatre, Studio East in Kirkland, the Northwest Actor’s Studio in Seattle and The Village Theatre’s
KIDSTAGE program in Everett. For three years he facilitated Tacoma Little Theatre’s Triple Threat Academy (a mutli-discipline theatre program for teens) and has been a guest artist in residence at high schools in Bellingham, Seattle, Bellevue, Shoreline, Woodinville, Tacoma and Mercer Island.
He has a passionate love for film (particularly those made between 1928-1962), theatre history, British history, nature photography, mountains in warm summer months, his daughters Allynne (17) and Zoe (15) and his amazing wife Penny.
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