Nicholas DiFabbio/Guitarist/Producer/Teacher
203 988 5922
Email - difab4@aol.com
Web Site - nicholasdifabbio.com
Electric/Acoustic/Nylon/Arch Top/12 String Guitar
Tenor Banjo, Mandolin,, Ukulele
Education; BS Music University Of Bridgeport-1976
GUITAR PERFORMANCE
Broadway
Chair;
Les Miserables - Dec. '02 - May'03
Off
Broadway Chair
Lucky Guy- April-May 2011
Broadway Credits;
Mary Poppins – Present
Chicago - Present
Follies - '11
The Scottsboro Boys '10-'11
Ave Q - '03-'09
Curtains - '08
Spamalot - '07-'08
The Drowsy Chaperone - '07
The Three Penny Opera - '06
Fiddler on the Roof - '04-'05
42nd Street - '01-'05
Les Miserables - '89 - '02
Oklahoma - '02
Miss Saigon -'90 -'99
City of Angels - '86
Aida - '04
Big River - '03
Man on No Importance -'02
Spitfire Grill - '01
National
Tours
Les Miserables - '92-'96
Big River Deaf West - '04-'05
The Boyfriend directed by Julie Andrews '05-'06
Goodspeed
Opera House - Happy Days, Half A Sixpence, Big River, Pippin,
The Boyfriend, Emmet Otters Jugband Christmas, All Shook Up,
A
Tree Grows In Brooklyn, Lucky Guy, Just So, King Of Hearts, A
Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Regional
- Mame - Barrington Stage, JC Superstar , Robber Bridegroom , Joseph, Grease, etc.
New Haven
Symphony 'Orchestra Goes West, Best Of Broadway'. Acoustic
Gtr, Tenor Banjo, 5 String Banjo. '06
Also
currently, The Cool Cat Jazz Band (Educational History of Jazz show for schools)
Co
writer (with Jim Fryer) of the ‘Rock Around The Clock’ History of Rock show.
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MUSIC AND AUDIO PRODUCER
Recording/Producing Credits;
Richard X Heyman –
Living Room
http://www.richardxheyman.com /
“ 14-song LP "Living Room!!" in honour of the studio where it was recorded -- in engineer
Nick DiFabbio's living room.”
Cool Cat Jazz Band – Nine Lives
http://www.coolcatjazz.info/ cccd
“multi-tasker Nick DiFabbio
(banjo, guitar, vocals, recording, mixing and mastering engineer)”
Christmas Time In Our Little
Town
Nick DiFabbio and Family
www.christmasourlittletown.com
“ In the hands of Nicholas DiFabbio, Guilford’s tree lighting has been immortalized in song. With beautiful vocals
provided by
his daughter, Marialena, Nicholas crafted music and lyrics to Christmas Time in Our Little Town,
which is also the
name of his new, 10-song CD of original Christmas songs” – Guilford Courier
Radio Production;
Producer/Writer/Audio Engineer for
‘The Beatles, Song By Song’
A four minute weekly feature on WHUD
FM, Westchester Co. NY
http://www.whud.com/promotions/beatles/index.php
Video Production;
Direction and production for Richard X.
Heyman videos;
‘Baby Boom’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIxKvLw0Df0&feature=related
‘Civil War Buff’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9PiINj1qp0
‘Branded In The Sky’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89pEUfRS6oE&feature=related
Direction and production for Nicholas DiFabbio original song videos;
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=difab4n&search_type=&aq=f
TEACHER
Private Guitar Instruction, Harmony Music,
Madison CT 1970- 1977.
Neighborhood Music School – New Haven, CT 1997-98
East
Haven Academy
Public School
Band Director, 1998-2002
Grades 3-8 Instrument Lessons
Grades 3-5 Concert Band
Grades 6-8 Concert Band
Two Jazz Ensembles
Music Director and arranger for 4 Musical Theater Productions;
‘ Yankee Doodle Dandy’
‘The Sound Of Music’
‘ Music Man’
‘ Cinderella’
Currently; 10 private guitar students, Guilford and Madison CT,
The Country School – Madison CT
COMMUNITY
Auxiliary Police Sargent – New York City Police Department – 1987-1992
EDUCATION
BS Music Education –
The University Of Bridgeport 1972-76
References;
Marianne Johnson
– Principal, East Haven Academy
67 Hudson Street
East Haven, CT 06512
203 468 3219
mjohnson@mail.east-haven.k12.ct.us
Salavatore
Ranniello - (Colleague) Professional Percussionist, Teacher (Hart School of Music)
38 Clearfield Rd
Wethersfield, CT 06109
ranniello@sbcglobal.net
860
202 2448
Jim Fryer -
(Colleague) Professional Trombonist, Teacher (Private and Adjunct Rye Country Day)
86 Grandview Ave
Rye, NY 10580
jim@jfryer.com
914 826
5257
Joe Tinari (Colleague)
Professional Guitarist, Teacher (Neighborhood Music School)
681 Silver Sands Rd
East
Haven, CT 06512
(no email)
203 4693876