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David Dabbon is a Broadway/TV/Film composer and arranger.  He earned an Emmy nomination for composing the music to the song “Eat Shit, Bob!” which aired on HBO’s award-winning Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.  He composed new music and wrote dance arrangements for the celebrated revival of Bob Fosse's Dancin'.

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Also on Broadway, he has worked as the dance arranger for the Tony-nominated musical adaptation of Beetlejuice, the revival of Funny Girl,  and the celebrated musical comedy Disaster! He also provided additional orchestrations for the Broadway bio-musical Sondheim on Sondheim (Grammy nomination). 

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​He has an ongoing collaboration with six-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald, regularly providing orchestrations for her concerts and albums. His work can be heard on both Audra McDonald New York Philharmonic: Sing Happy and Audra McDonald: Go Back Home. His orchestration of the song “Somewhere/Some Other Time” was performed at the 42nd annual Kennedy Center Honors.​

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In 2022 he music directed the inaugural Culture Awards with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang based on their podcast Las Culturistas. He is a co-composer and music director for Actress and Comedian Catherine Cohen. He had a 12-week run of his interactive game show musical, Game On produced and commissioned by Pittsburgh CLO. 

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He provided arrangements and orchestrations for the HBO documentary Six by Sondheim. ​

 

David is also a Usual Suspect at New York Theatre Workshop, a member of the Television Academy, ASCAP, and The Society of Composers and Lyricists.   He earned a master of music degree in choral conducting from Carnegie Mellon University (under the tutelage of Dr. Robert Page) and a self-defined bachelor of music degree from The Hartt School.

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A note about my style of music:

Growing up as the child of first-generation Egyptian Jews, my house was a symphony of sounds: the languages spoken were French and Arabic, and the music represented those two worlds. The influence of these languages is evident in my compositions: from the rhythms of dance to the harmonic and tonal progressions, melding together to form a unique blend of musical identity.