DAVID PAUL MESLER
VOCALIST * PIANIST * SONGWRITER
PLAYED FOR: Presidents
Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, and George W. Bush, Al Gore,
Hillary Clinton, Steven Spielberg, Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman,
Harrison Ford, Julie Harris, Tom Brokaw, Bill Gates, Paul Allen, Gene Kelly, Dudley Moore, The Brat Pack, governors from across the country (staff and casts of) Saturday Night Live, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Living Single,
Dynasty, WKRP In Cincinnati, Good Times, The Jeffersons, Different
Strokes, Love American Style, Laugh-In, The Beverly Hillbillies,
Gilligan's Island, Bewitched
ON SAME BILL AS: Diane Schuur, Dr. John, The Manhattan
Transfer, Harry Belafonte, Jackie Evancho, Diahann Carroll, Burt
Bacharach, Lionel Richie, Debbie Gibson, Dinah Shore, Andy Williams,
Skitch Henderson, Philip Glass, Lyle Lovett, Bruce Hornsby, The Jackson
5, Sister Sledge, Barry Manilow, New York City Opera,
X, Psychic TV, Nick Cave, Lydia Lunch, Jane's Addiction, Butthole
Surfers, Julian Cope, Bob Hope, Victoria Jackson, Harvey Feinstein, Art
Linklater, Senor Wences, Bob Eubanks, Garrison Keillor, Penn &
Teller, The Capitol Steps, magicians from around the world, the Broadway
casts of Phantom Of The Opera and Wicked
FILMS: The Blind Side, Warm Bodies, Atlas Shrugged,
Furry Vengeance, The Wrong Guy, Battlefield Earth, Eloise At The Plaza,
Eloise At Christmastime, First Daughter, King Arthur, Sea Of Dreams,
Finding Home, Dennis The Menace Strikes Again, The Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants, The Grudge 2 (with)
Sandra Bullock, John Travolta, Julie Andrews, John Malkovich, Brendan
Fraser, Forest Whitaker, Kathy Bates, Michael Keaton, Brooke Shields,
Dick Van Dyke, Tim McGraw, Genevieve Bujold, Louise Fletcher, Sonia
Braga, Katie Holmes, Clive Owens, Kids In The Hall (composers)
Carter Burwell, Michael Kamen, Christopher Young, Graeme Revell, Bruce
Broughton, Cliff Eidelman, Luis Bacalov, Elia Cmiral, Joseph Conlan,
Lawrence Shragge, Marco Beltrami (sessions for) Disney, Warner Brothers, MGM, Touchstone, New Line Pictures, Handmade Films,
ABC, Lions Gate Entertainment, Summit Entertainment, Alcon
Entertainment, Del Mar Films, Success Films, Clear Star Pictures, 20th
Century Fox, Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Columbia Pictures, Sony Pictures
TELEVISION: Days Of Our Lives, The Miracle Strip, The
Seattle-Tacoma Interurban Railway, Pioneers In Aviation, Sun
Microsystems, The Day Elvis Met Nixon, The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific
Exposition (for) NBC, PBS, KCTS, Seattle Channel
ALBUMS: In Spiritu I, II, & III, The Balladeer,
Pacific Sailings, The Beautiful, The Dream Journal Murders, The Blue
Diary, I Hear America Singing, Vol. 1, 2, 3, 4, & 5, Celebrating
Gershwin, Vol. 1 & 2, Celebrating Ellington, Moonsongs, Just A Lucky
So And So, Cloudburst, Circus!, Melodrama!, Vaudeville!, Mystery!
MAJOR WORKS: (orchestral and choral) The March Macabre, The Breakfast Table, Blue Nocturne, Psalm 23 (songbooks)
D.H. Lawrence, Walt Whitman, Carl Sandburg, Emily Dickinson, e.e.
cummings, Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Ogden Nash, James Thurber,
Henry David Thoreau, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edgar Allan Poe, Ralph
Waldo Emerson, Theodore Roethke, Raymond Carver (musicals and dance theater) Only A Dream Away, Sometime's It's Magic, Gaping Generations And Gunshot Wounds, Blue Nocturne, The Ballad Of Nomad Blue
DAVID'S THANKS GO OUT TO: Family and friends for their
understanding, love and support; teachers and mentors for their
inspiring influences; favorite composers and musicians for their
endlessly intriguing body of work; and students and colleagues at SCC.
DAVID'S SPECIAL THANKS GO OUT TO: Jocelyne Scott,
Nathan Scott, Nicholas Scott, John Sundsten, Jim Hopkins, Kenneth Ernst,
Barbara Moneymaker, Morton Lauridsen, Elmer Bernstein, Christopher
Young, Buddy Baker, Jerry Goldsmith, Milt Larsen, Richard Sherman,
Robert Sherman, Jan MacDonald, Troy Skubitz, Annemarie Guzy, Gerard
Schwarz, Samuel Jones, Larry Feder, Linda Bonomi, Kit Herrod, Shelley
Kuni, Jared Erlandson, Jan Oppelaar, Rosetta Hunter, Brian Kirk, Jim
Cauter, Anthony Spain, Audrey Wright, Karen Rice, Julie Reed, George
Shangrow, Scott Spain, David Harrington, Alan and Hinako Hovhaness,
David Sabee, Simon James, Michael Nicolella, Ellen Finn, Mike Dennis,
Barbara Hume, Kelly Hume, Pip McCaslin, Julia, Dan, Gary, and Scott, and
SMPTV friends from USC.