Dwight Beckmeyer enjoys a rich and varied musical career ranging from the concert stage as a classical soloist and accompanist with choirs and orchestras to a musical theatre musician, gospel and rock musician and singer/songwriter.
For 16 years, Dwight was the Northwest Girlchoir’s pianist, touring Europe, South America and Japan and recording two CDs Echo in My Soul and Inscription of Hope (Arsis label). His song the Salmon, Eagle, and the Forest commissioned for Earthwalk 2002, performed by the Northwest Girlchoir was proclaimed by Ruth Schubert of the Seattle Post Intelligencer to be “Exultant!”
Dwight’s Theater Musician credits include Associate Music Director/Keyboardist for Sunday in the Park With George, Miss Saigon, West Side Story, Sweeney Todd, Pippin, and Keyboardist for Catch Me If You Can, Memphis, Jersey Boys, Edward Scissorhands, and the Wedding Singer (5th Avenue Theatre); keyboardist for Wicked, Altar Boys, Spamalot, A Chorus Line and Annie (Paramount Theatre). This January, Dwight was also the Music Director/Pianist at New York’s 92nd St. Y, in Rodgers &… a review of the music of Richard Rodgers and his collaborators.
Highlights as a piano soloist include Dwight’s performances with the Bellevue Philharmonic (Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue) the Philharmonia Northwest (Mendelssohn’s Concerto in Gm), the Everett Symphony (Grieg’s Concerto in Am), the Thalia Symphony Orchestra (Beethoven’s Concerto No. 2) and the Port Gardner Bay Chamber Orchestra (Mozart’s Concerto in Eb major K. 449) He also played synthesizer for the Seattle Symphony’s pops concert, "Great Loves of the Silver Screen" performing The Bride of Frankenstein.
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