Ruchir Khazanchi
Biography
Ruchir Khazanchi is a composer, lyricist, music director, and actor originally from Omaha, Nebraska. Recently, his contributions as writing coordinator for the 89th Waa-Mu Show: State of the Art were awarded the John Paynter Award for “Outstanding Creation of Music”. He has been hard at work on two original musicals since then while also rounding out his studies at Northwestern University with emphases in Theatre, Screen Acting, Creating the Musical, and a Music Theatre Certificate. Selected Theatre Musician Credits: A CHORUS LINE (Keyboard 2/Assistant Music Director); THE EMPEROR’S NEW CLOTHES (Head Music Director/Keyboard 1/Conductor); WINNIE THE POOH (Owl/Guitar/Mandolin/Keyboard 1). Selected Music Theatre Acting Credits: LEGALLY BLONDE (Paramount Theatre, Aurora, IL); GUYS & DOLLS (Wirtz Center, Evanston, IL); SOMETHING IN THE GAME (American Music Theatre Project, Evanston, IL).
Contact: [email protected]
Professional Experience
- Regional
- Concerts/Cabaret
- Education
Regions
- Chicago/Midwest
Interested in touring?
- Yes
Hireable as
- Theatrical Composer (Music and Lyrics)
- Theatrical Composer (Music only)
- Theatrical Lyricist
- Music Director/Conductor (Pianist)
- Music Director/Conductor (Not Pianist)
- Vocal Director and/or Choral Prep
- Songwriter
- Singer/Songwriter
- Orchestrator
- Vocal Arranger
- Music Copyist
- Pit Musician (Keyboards)
- Actor-Musician
My Primary Instrument
- Piano
My Instruments
- Guitar - acoustic
- Percussion
- Piano
- Violin
- Voice
Software
- Finale
- GarageBand
- Logic
- MainStage
Pronouns
- He/Him