Rick Bassett is a composer, pianist, arranger and orchestrator in New York City. He is a member of the BMI Lehman Engel Music Theatre Workshop, currently writing a new musical with playwright/lyricist Jessica Fleitman. 

Most recently, Rick orchestrated songs for Sutton Foster’s concerts with the New York Pops at Carnegie Hall and their Forest Hills Outdoor Concert series, as well as the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center.  His orchestrations were also heard in the 2014 holiday concerts by the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra.

On Broadway, Rick is an orchestrator for “Violet,” as well as “Caroline, or Change” and “Twelfth Night” at Lincoln Center.  Rick has also done a number of orchestrations for Broadway Pops, International. 

Rick was synthesizer programmer for Ahrens and Flaherty’s “Little Dancer” at the Kennedy Center, Oct/Nov. 2014; “Violet” Broadway, 2014; and the touring production of “Nice Work If You Can Get It” 2014-15.

In May, 2013, Rick was a Fellow at the John Duffy Composers Institute at the Virginia Arts Festival, Norfolk, VA.

He is the composer and musical director for "Burning Up!" a musical comedy movie short and 10-minute musical, written with Pamela Weiler Grayson.

Rick co-produced, composed and orchestrated for the Grammy-nominated CD “Beautiful Star” by The CenturyMen chorus. TV Documentary scores include ABC daytime Emmy-nominated “Circle of the Earth.”

Rick taught at the Yared School of Music at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, and at EECMY School of Jazz Music, performed in the Ethio-Latin band "Eshee Havana," and co-directed the Motley Singers.  Rick wrote the music, book and lyrics to “Hope” a musical comedy set in Uganda, which was performed in Kampala, Uganda in June 2007.

Rick's music has been performed frequently by choirs of the First Presbyterian Church in the City of New York; Bradley Hills Presbyterian Church, Bethesda, MD; Société Chorale de Saint-Lambert, Québec; and many others.

I am a professional composer/lyricist/songwriter living in Brooklyn, NY.


Composer.  Lyricist.  Asian dude.  Recent works include Peter and the Wall (Dramatist Guild Fellowship, Rhinebeck Fellowship) Costs of Living (2016 Richard Rodgers Award, 2012 Jerry Harrington Award, 2015 NAMT, 2015 New American Musical Award, 2012 ASCAP Musical Theater Workshop, 2012 BMI Master Class with Steven Sondheim, 2012 Weston New Musical Award Nominee) Timothy Huang: Chinese or Crazy?(NYTB), Missing Karma, (Prospect), Crossing Over (NAAP) Other works: LINES (NYMF ‘08), The View from Here (Top 10 Cast Albums of 2006) Death and Lucky (MacDowell Fellowship). Timothy holds an MFA from NYU/Tisch and is a 2013 Fred Ebb Award Finalist and Dramatist Guild Fellow for musical theater.  www.timothyhuang.net 

Songwriter, Singer, Multi-Instrumentalist, Producer, Composer

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Recorded a few albums, toured, won some awards, now I live in NYC and write musicals.

Blue Haired Female Powerhouse Singer in Gogol Bordello. 

Personal Projects Include: Founder/CEO of Anti-Bullying Program- Bee True To You. 

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