Utsav Bhargava
Biography
UTSAV BHARGAVA is an NYC-based composer/lyricist, orchestrator, pianist, and copyist. On Broadway, he served as Copyist/Keyboard 2 Sub/Music Assistant/Rehearsal Pianist for A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical at the Broadhurst Theatre. He performed the same roles for the pre-Broadway run of A Beautiful Noise at Emerson Colonial Theatre, and was the Music Assistant/Rehearsal Pianist for The Wanderer at Paper Mill Playhouse. He has also worked as a music director for a number of youth theatre programs.
His work as a writer has been produced at Theatre Now’s Sound Bites X, at Brooklyn Children’s Theatre, and at Curtain Up, Berklee’s annual showcase of original musical theatre. He is currently in his second year as a composer at the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop.
Utsav is a graduate of Berklee College of Music, where he studied Film Scoring, Contemporary Writing & Production, and Musical Theatre Conducting. As an Indian-American artist, Utsav is passionate about bringing representation of marginalized groups to the theatre industry – both on stage and off.
Professional Experience
- Broadway
- Regional
- Education
Regions
- NYC/Tri-State Area
Interested in touring?
- Yes
Hireable as
- Theatrical Composer (Music and Lyrics)
- Theatrical Composer (Music only)
- Music Director/Conductor (Pianist)
- Music Director/Conductor (Not Pianist)
- Music Assistant
- Songwriter
- Orchestrator
- Vocal Arranger
- Dance Arranger
- Incidental Music Composer/Arranger
- Music Copyist
- Music Transcriber
- Pit Musician (Keyboards)
- Keyboard Programmer
- Sound Designer/Composer
- Audition Pianist
- Class/Voice Lesson/Rehearsal Pianist
My Instruments
- Piano
- Synth - keyboards
Software
- Digital Performer
- Dorico
- Finale
- GarageBand
- Logic
- MainStage
- Pro-Tools
- Sibelius
- QLab
Affiliations
- THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF MUSICIANS (AFM)
- THE DRAMATISTS GUILD
Pronouns
- He/Him