Christmas in Tulsa
Featuring Scott Coulter and Tulsa Sings! Finalists DEC. 11 • 7:30 P.M. We are kicking off the holiday season with Signature Symphony’s annual Christmas in Tulsa concert as our full orchestra returns to the PACE stage! This year’s concert features holiday favorites performed by our past Tulsa Sings! competition finalists led by Broadway star Scott Coulter. Embrace the sights and sounds of Christmas as the Signature Symphony long-standing tradition of welcoming the holidays with delightful music continues.
Tulsa Sings! One of the creators of Tulsa Sings! is Scott Coulter, a New York City based vocalist and concert producer. With former Signature Symphony Music Director Andrés Franco, he helped develop the vocal competition, now in its third year, and is instrumental in selecting and mentoring the finalists through the vocal competition. We are pleased to welcome Scott and finalists from the 2018, 2019 and 2020 Tulsa Sings! competitions to the Signature stage this year for Christmas in Tulsa.
Scott Coulter Scott Coulter is one of New York’s most honored vocalists having received five MAC Awards, five Bistro Awards and two Nightlife Awards for Outstanding Vocalist. He’s performed at most of NYC’s top rooms including Feinstein’s at The Regency where he spent a record-setting eight months performing the revue 11 O’CLOCK NUMBERS AT 11 O’CLOCK which he also cocreated, directed and musically arranged. His self-titled debut CD won the 2003 MAC Award for Outstanding Recording and was chosen as the best recording of the year by TheatreMania and Cabaret Scenes magazines. Scott was director and star of A CHRISTMAS CAROL: THE SYMPHONIC CONCERT in its world premiere with the Baltimore Symphony and reprised his performance in the Emmy-nominated PBS production. He is an Emmy nominee himself for his performance in American Song at NJPAC. Scott regularly performs in concert both as a solo artist and with a variety of legendary performers including Academy Award-winner Stephen Schwartz, Tony-winner Ben Vereen and Grammy-winner Sheena Easton, and has performed with symphonies all over the world. Schwartz has said, “One of the greatest things that can happen to a composer is to have his music interpreted by Scott Coulter.”
Scott is creator, arranger and director of several touring shows for symphonies and performing arts centers and a regular producer/director of Michael Feinstein’s STANDARD TIME at Carnegie Hall. He recently wrote the book for the new musical GOT TO BE THERE which celebrates the life and music of songwriter Elliot Willensky. Scott is founder/owner of SpotOn Entertainment and Spot-On Arts Academy. He’s the artistic director of the Pocono Mountains Music Festival and a resident director of programming at Feinstein’s/54 Below in NYC. He is a proud graduate of the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music which honored him with the CCM Young Alumni Award in 2010 and CCM’s Distinguished Service Award in 2020. “The holidays are filled with memories of family so it’s a real treat to get to share this holiday season with the Tulsa Sings! family. It’s been exciting to find Christmas songs that perfectly suit each member of our cast. It’s a bit like finding the perfect present and wrapping it up with a big red bow. The range of talent involved means that the musical gifts in the concert will cover a wide array of genres and styles. In true Tulsa Sings! fashion there’s something for everyone.”
