FIZ SHAPUR
Musical Director, Pianist, Keyboard Player, Arranger.
As a freelance Musical Director Fiz has worked in many different fields of the Music
and Entertainment industry in London for over thirty years, both in theatre,
television and on the stage.
Much in demand across the world he has most recently been Music Supervisor for
the first Mandarin language production of Spring Awakening in Shanghai.
He was also heavily involved in the creation of a new Chinese Musical Youth
Awakening which featured some of the country’s best known Pop Artistes.
Currently a Musical Supervisor for The Really Useful Group, Fiz is responsible for the
re-creation of the musical CATS around the world, from productions in Europe to
South Africa, Australia, the Middle East, Asia, including the first Korean language
production and the first Mandarin language production in China. He also supervised
the recent Japanese cast album recording of CATS.
He was also Musical Supervisor for the first Mandarin language production of Tell Me
On A Sunday which opened in Shanghai in 2018.
His theatre experience covers a wide range of musicals that include Working,
110 in The Shade, Company, Sweet Charity, and the London Premieres of
Merrily We Roll Along, and Little Shop Of Horrors.
He spent three years conducting Les Miserables at the Palace Theatre with a brief
excursion to the Donmar Warehouse for the Kander and Ebb celebration How Lucky
Can You Get, followed by King at the Piccadilly Theatre; the story of Martin Luther
King.
After the U.K tour of the National Theatre production of Guys and Dolls he returned
to London’s West End for the acclaimed new production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s
Aspects Of Love at the Prince of Wales theatre. He then went on to be Musical
Director for Five Guys Named Moe, and for the London Premiere of The Best Of
Times, the new Jerry Herman revue.
Fiz also works as a Vocal Arranger for theatre and across many genres including the
national tour of What A Feeling, and the male singing group Teatro.
Away from Theatre, as a Music Director / Pianist, and Vocal arranger, Fiz has
worked with many Jazz / Cabaret, and ‘Pop’ artistes, both in the U.K., Europe, and
across the U.S.A., ranging from; Adelaide Hall and Eartha Kitt, to Helen Reddy,
The Three Degrees, The Stylistics, Shalamar, Candi Staton, The Supremes,
Rose Royce, Sister Sledge, Leo Sayer, The Trammps, The Real Thing,
Odyssey, Tavares, Demis Roussos, Jocelyn Brown, and most recently,
Sweetbox.
Fiz also composes and arranges for television, and was Music Director for the BBC
series Bob Monkhouse on the Spot, and was seen on the recent
T.V series Let Me Entertain You.
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