CRAIG LEE BURKET
Musician
phone: 508-376-9072
cell: 508-397-2468
email: craig@burket.net
Last updated: 7/4/2008
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
North Cambridge Family Opera FESTIVAL
CHORUS, Cambridge, MA, FamilyOpera.org 2008
Singer, Powers of Ten, by David Haines
North Cambridge Family Opera,
Cambridge, MA, FamilyOpera.org 2008
People Jig in The Puzzle Jigs by David Haines
North Cambridge Family Opera FESTIVAL
CHORUS, Cambridge, MA, FamilyOpera.org 2007
Guest Conductor, Lifetime: Songs of Life and Evolution, by David
Haines
North Cambridge Family Opera,
Cambridge, MA, FamilyOpera.org 2007
Security Guard and Ambulance-Chasing Lawyer in Kids Court
by David Bass and John Kane
MetroWest Family Theater, Sudbury, MA 2005
Mr. Sowerberry in Oliver! by Lionel Bart
North Cambridge Family Opera, Cambridge, MA, FamilyOpera.org 2005
Rebel, Sandperson and Droid in Space Opera by David Bass
North Cambridge Family Opera,
Cambridge, MA, FamilyOpera.org 2004
Citizen of Shushan and Friend of Haman in Springtime for Haman
by David Bass
North Cambridge Family Opera,
Cambridge, MA, FamilyOpera.org 2003
Earth Jig in The Puzzle Jigs by David Haines
HANDEL & HAYDN SOCIETY 1983
to 1986
Assistant Concertmaster and Section First Violin
Freelance violinist, New England area 1979
to 1986
Engagements with: Alea III, Rhode Island Philharmonic, Boston Classical
Orchestra, Central Massachusetts Symphony, Composers in Red Sneakers, Concord
Chorale, Worcester Symphony Orchestra
Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, Boston, MA 1981
to 1985
Section First Violin and Orchestra Committee Chairperson
Boston CONCERT OPERA, Boston, MA 1980
to 1985
Section First Violin
PORTLAND (ME) SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA,
Portland, ME, portlandsymphony.com 1979
to 1985
Section First Violin
Opera Company of Boston 1979
to 1983
Section Second Violin
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
North Cambridge Family Opera, Cambridge, MA, FamilyOpera.org 2007
to present
Assistant Music Director and Répétiteur
LIGHTHOUSE ART and MUSIC CAMP, Pottstown, PA summers,
1972 to 1976
Instructor in Violin and Music Theory and Conductor of String
Orchestra
COMPOSITIONS
Telomere for organ 1983
Agapae for concert band 1982
Premiered by University of New Hampshire Symphonic Band, Nicholas Orovich,
conductor
Music for Brass and Percussion. Premiered by the Portland Symphony, Bruce Hangen, conductor 1981
Meditation on Bosch's Terrestrial Paradise for chamber orchestra 1981
Premiered by the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, Jameson Marvin, conductor
Pama Gardens for solo oboe. Premiered by Emily Gaberman 1980
Winter for orchestra 1980
Performed by the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, Larry Hill, conductor, and by the
Bergen Youth Orchestra, Eugene Minor, conductor
Homage to Bela Bartok for string quartet 1979
Canzona for Orchestra. Premiered by the Bergen Youth Orchestra, Eugene Minor, conductor 1975
Apertures for string orchestra. Premiered by the Bergen Youth Orchestra, Eugene Minor, conductor 1974
MOVIE ROLES
Violinist in String Quartet in The Witches of Eastwick. imdb.com/title/tt0094332 1987
Violinist in Orchestra in Yes, Giorgio!, imdb.com/title/tt0084931 1982
EDUCATION
Tanglewood Fellowship Program, Lenox, MA summers, 1977, 1978, 1979
B.Music with Honors, New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, MA 1978