The Composer
Sam Belich has managed to combine several musical and theatrical careers into one. Educated at the University of Wisconsin in Madison and The Juilliard School as a violist, he has since studied voice/opera with Oren Brown, Edith Bers, Pamela Kucenic-Motisi, Vincent La Selva and performed with the New York City Opera Company, New Jersey State Opera, New York Grand Opera, The Milwaukee Opera Company among others. A private teacher and coach for thirty years, his students have performed throughout the United States, as well as internationally. He presently divides his time between New York City and Milwaukee, where is the Director of Music and Drama at the Brookfield Academy, Wisconsin’s premier college preparatory school. This season he will direct productions of The Fantasticks, I Do I Do, Into the Woods Jr., Murder Is Bad But Monday Can Kill You, and The Importance of Being Earnest. Mr. Belich is the composer of three operas, The Trojan Women, Laius and Chrysippus, The Eglantine, as well as other vocal, symphonic, ballet and chamber music.
