DYLAN GLATTHORN is an American composer and lyricist currently residing in New York City. Dylan is the recent recipient of the Alan Menken Award and Scholarship for New York University’s Film Scoring Program where he studies under Sonny Kompanek.

 

Dylan has written two full-length musicals: Republic and The Way It Goes and is currently working on his third, Edison. In 2009, Republic had a stage reading at the Acorn Theatre in Times Square. The show’s incredible cast included such Broadway regulars as Tony Award winning actress Beth Leavel (The Drowsy Chaperone, Crazy for You), Lauren Worsham (New York City Opera’s Candide), Kelli Barrett (Baby It’s You!, The Royal Family) and James Moye (Tale of Two Cities, Full Monty). Republic made it to the final round of selections forlast year’s Eugene O’Neill Musical Theatre Conference. Last year, Dylan worked on three New York productions of Canteen, a USO style cabaret with big band arrangements of modern pop tunes, at the Laurie Beechman Theatre where he orchestrated and arranged 35 songs for a 6 piece band and 4 vocalists.  Canteen returned to the Laurie Beechman this past October for a marathon run of all three shows.

 

Dylan recently finished scoring Today We Have The Power, a feature-length documentary about the World Trade Organization protests of 1999. Dylan also recently won NYU’s Skirball 2011 Film Scoring Competition where his original music for the animation “A Rant” was performed by the NYU Orchestra under the baton of Jerry Steichen. Last year, Dylan composed a song for the FUTURESTATES short film, White, currently streaming on PBS’s website at http://video.pbs.org/video/1905931677. The film was screened at several festivals including South by Southwest (SXSW) and the Tribeca Film Festival.

 

Dylan is also known for his concert music and was recently commissioned to write a wind quintet for the Quintet of the Americas set to premiere at Symphony Space early February.  Dylan is one of the five founding members of Circles and Lines, the New York City composers collective that has received favorable reviews in the New York Times. As a member of Circles and Lines, his work has received numerous premieres at a variety of New York venues such as Le Poisson Rouge, Renee Weiler Concert Hall at the Greenwich House, and Brooklyn’s Vaudeville Park. A recent concert at Le Poisson Rouge is currently streaming on the website of New York’s classical music station WQXR. Dylan’s music has been performed by ensembles such as the Quintet of the Americas, the Lumina String Quartet, the PCCA Orchestra, and the PRISM Brass Quintet. In 2005, his string quartet titled “The Days of Trains Are Comin’ Back” won first place at NYU’s String Quartet Competition.

 

Born and raised in St. Petersburg, Florida, Dylan is a graduate of the Pinellas County Center for the Arts at Gibbs High School where he received the 2005 Bravo Award, the top award for achievement and talent. As a Florida native, he has composed, orchestrated, and music directed for numerous productions at the Palladium Theatre, the Studio@620, and other local venues. His first full-length musical, The Way It Goes, premiered at the Palladium Theatre in 2004 to a crowd of 800 people.

 

He is the recipient of the 2011 and 2007 Alan Menken Award, Walker’s Rising Stars Scholarship, Al Downing Jazz Association Scholarship, and the Mensa Education and Research Foundation’s Grosswirth-Salny Scholarship. Dylan is a proud member of both ASCAP and The Dramatists Guild of America, Inc.

 

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