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Melody Valdez

Melody Valdez

She/Her

Biography

Melody Valdez is an NYC-based Music Director, Arranger, and Pianist. She is currently working on Lempicka as Music Assistant/Rehearsal Pianist. Favorite credits include traveling as AMD/Keys 3 for SUMMER: The Donna Summer Musical National Tour, and music assisting on Monsoon Wedding at St. Ann’s Warehouse. Additional music directing credits include Godspell, Cabaret, and A Chorus Line. Melody has also enjoyed working with AfterWork Theater, Berkeley Playhouse Conservatory, and National Asian Artists Project’s Broadway Community Chorus. She enjoys working on new musicals, and has worked on readings/workshops of Hearts Beat Loud, A Wrinkle In Time, and The Lunchbox. Melody is proudly Filipina-American.

Professional Experience

  • Broadway
  • Off Broadway
  • Regional
  • Concerts/Cabaret
  • Education
  • Tours
  • Community Theatre
  • Bachelor’s Degree

Regions

  • NYC/Tri-State Area

Interested in touring?

  • Yes

Maestra Expertise

  • Music Director/Conductor (Pianist)
  • Music Assistant
  • Orchestrator
  • Instrumentalist/Pit Musician
  • Music Copyist
  • Music Transcriber
  • Class/Voice Lesson/Rehearsal Pianist
  • Rehearsal Pianist

Primary Instruments

  • Piano

Additional Instruments

  • Synth - keyboards

Software

  • Finale
  • Logic
  • MainStage
  • Sibelius

Affiliations

  • THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF MUSICIANS (AFM)
  • ASMAC
  • MUSE

Person of Color?

  • Yes