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Richard Loatman (Founder/Artistic Director)
 Richard
Loatman is a New Jersey native and graduate of
Westminster Choir College of
Rider University. He continued graduate studies in conducting from both
Westminster and the College of New Jersey from 1971-1982. He was producing
director of the Notre Dame High School Performing Arts Program for fifteen years
and was visiting lecturer in musical theater at Mercer County Community College
and Rider University. During this same time period, Mr. Loatman was associated
with the Princeton Community Players, the Pennington Players, McCarter Theater, BackStage Breaks, Mercer County Community College, and the Bristol Riverside
Theater as either musical director, staging director, or both. At MCCC, he was
musical director for Maureen West on the productions of Company, West Side
Story, Kiss Me, Kate, Cabaret, and The Fantasticks. For many summers
he has taught musical theater, choir, or hand bells at the New Jersey Summer
Arts Institute, Tomato Patch, the New Jersey Governor’s School, and the
Westminster Conservatory. During the 1970’s-1980’s, Mr. Loatman was Minister of
Music of the Dutch Neck Presbyterian Church and was Choir Master at the Holy
Cross Church in Rumson, New Jersey from 1990-1993.
 Previous to the Capital Singers and the Trenton Community Singers, Mr.
Loatman was conductor of the Greater West Windsor Schola Cantorum, the Lawrence
Chorale, and the NJGMC of Princeton. At Rider University, he has maintained a
decade-long collaboration with Miriam Mills which resulted in productions of
Baby (1998), Company (2001), and Musical Chairs (2004). In
1999, he composed the incidental/chorus music for Rider’s production of Medea.
Mr. Loatman has been an educator, conductor, clinician, composer, and arranger
ever since his graduation from Westminster in 1965. With this inaugural concert
of the Capital Singers, he has the opportunity to continue the legacy of choral
music that he experienced with his teachers over the past thirty-five years:
George Lynn, Warren Martin, David Stanley York, Robert Carwithen, William Trego,
and Nancianne Parella.
 
Last modified:
August 22, 2008
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