Jan Roper
Biography
Jan Roper is a composer and music director. After many years as a singer/performer, she launched her theater career with the full-scale production of her own original rock opera, Jerusalem A.D. Another original work, City of Light, was chosen for the ASCAP Stephen Schwartz workshop and the sheNYC Festival, where it won Best Score. City of Light has also been featured as a “new work to watch” at Feinstein’s/54 Below in NYC. Jan composed and MD’d a one-woman show on the Broadway career of Lane Bradbury (the original Dainty Rose in Gypsy), which they performed in LA and NYC. She stays busy as a vocal and music director in the local theatre and cabaret community of Los Angeles.
Experience
- Regional
- Concerts/Cabaret
- Education
Regions
- LA/Southern California
Expertise
- Theatrical Composer (Music and Lyrics)
- Theatrical Composer (Music only)
- Music Director/Conductor (Pianist)
- Vocal Director and/or Choral Prep
- Songwriter
- Singer/Songwriter
- Vocal Arranger
- Music Copyist
- Music Transcriber
- Pit Musician (Keyboards)
- Audition Pianist
- Class/Voice Lesson/Rehearsal Pianist
- Voice teacher with roster of private students
- Classroom music teacher at an educational institution
Instruments
- Accordion
- Piano
- Voice
Software
- Logic
- MainStage
- Sibelius
Affiliations
- THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF MUSICIANS (AFM)
- BMI
- SAG/AFTRA
Preferred Pronouns
- She/Her