About Me
Doug Oberhamer is an award winning Arranger and Orchestrator as well as multi-instrumentalist who has worked in the music industry his entire life.
Conducting, Music Directing, Composing, Performing, Vocal Coaching and Music Production are all roles he has enjoyed fulfilling in many different settings from Broadway and National tours to pop tours and productions all around the world.
Doug’s work spans a variety of genres from Musical Theatre to Jazz, Classical to Pop/Rock and Funk to Latin.
Over the course of his career, Doug has enjoyed working with Nile Rodgers, Ariana DeBose, Frank Wildhorn, John Rando, Vanessa Daou, Tituss Burgess, Josh Bergasse, Ann Hampton Callaway, Diahann Carroll, Jerry Lewis, Joan Rivers, Vivian Reed, Kelli O’hara, Laura Benanti, Kate Baldwin, Linda Eder, Norm Lewis, Robert Cuccioli, Robert Creighton, Kenny Garrett, Dr. Donald Byrd, Victoria Theodore, Everett Bradley, Paul Schaeffer, Karen Kohler, Tom Nazziola, Melanie Stace, Carla Stickler, Ray Romano, Colin Quinn, The Four Seasons, KC and the Sunshine Band, The Blues Jumpers, Billy Eric and Nick Palumbo and the Flipped Fedoras in various musical capacities.
Latest projects:
A Gentleman’s Guide To Love and Murder - Music Director and Piano/Conductor
KnightHammer - Kickin’ It - Worldwide Release - Recording Artist, Composer, Arranger, Producer
SpongeBob Squarepants - Music Director, Conductor.
And A Nightingale Sang… - Music Supervisor, Music Coach and Arranger.
Top Of The World - The James Cagney Musical - Music Director, Conductor and Dance Arranger.
Marian - The Marian Anderson Musical - Music Director
Hamlet The Rock Musical - Music Director, Arranger, Orchestrator and Conductor.
The Oberhamer Brothers - Together Again - Performer, Composer, Arranger, Orchestrator and Music Producer.
Errol and Fidel - Co-composer, Arranger, Orchestrator and Music Director.
The Bench: Journey into Love - Composer, Arranger, Orchestrator and Music Supervisor.
Arrangements, Orchestrations and Track production for Addy and Uno, a wonderful children’s show running Off-Broadway at the New World Stages.
Vocal Arranger and Music Director for It’s A Wonderful Life: A Life Radio Play at the prestigious Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey.
Frida - Music Director. The Coyote - Arranger, Orchestrator, MD.
Associate Musical Director and featured Trumpeter in the Original Broadway Musical - Swing!
National Tours as Musical Director: (Swing!, Crazy for You, Thoroughly Modern Millie)
Broadway keyboard/piano sub on numerous Broadway Shows including Wicked and Rocky.
Original shows/projects: What Do Critics Know?, My Vaudeville Man, DoubleTime, Wanda’s World, I Got Fired, Flight of the Lawnchair Man).
Music Director and Music Supervisor of the Warner Bros./Chinese Production of Reel to Real - a multimedia show fusing live performance with film clips from Golden Age Movie Musicals. Taking over for Tan Dun, Doug composed a large section of the show for the Chinese production (Monumental Journey, Passage through the Abyss and Mystique of the Great Wall).
Doug has also written many songs and jingles for TV, Recordings and Live Performances that have been heard throughout the world.
Vocal Coaching and Audition Preparation has been a very rewarding part of Doug’s career. He has a very high success rate with his students focusing on building confidence through thorough preparation, both physically and mentally.
A sampling of Doug’s classical piano recordings showcasing the original compositions of Tom Nazziola can be heard here.
Music Producing: DoubleTime with Nile Rodgers, My Vaudeville Man, The A**hole in my Head and Top Drawer.
He also produces pop/rock songs and albums with various singer/songwriters ( Carla Stickler, Linda Marie Fischer, to name a few),
as well as records professional mp3‘s for audition and agent submissions as well as voice-over demos.
Awards and Nominations
Winner of Best Orchestrations for Errol and Fidel at the New York Musical Festival.
Winner of Bistro Award for Orchestrations - Outstanding Achievement for Little Death.
Jefferson Award Nominee for his work on Swing! in Chicago.
Grammy Award Nominee for Swing! - Best original cast recording.
Multiple Tony Award Nominations for Swing!