Annbritt Du Chateau (Broadway Conductor, Associate Music Supervisor for Disney’s Frozen Worldwide)

ANNBRITT duCHATEAU, a Chicago native, grew up playing both piano and French horn. Annbritt holds both a Masters and Bachelors degree in piano performance from DePaul University. Her piano teacher was Mary Sauer, pianist of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. While receiving her doctorate, she postponed her doctoral recital to join the National Tour of Aspects Of Love. Since then Annbritt has toured as a pianist, conductor (or both) on shows such as Phantom Of The Opera, Miss Saigon and Mary Poppins. Since relocating to New York, Annbritt has been fortunate to serve as Music Director on many projects, and has had the privilege of serving as Associate Music Director to one of the greats, Lifetime Achievement Tony Award recipient, Paul Gemignani (Stephen Sondheim’s Music Director). Annbritt was Mr. Gemignani's Associate Music Director and pianist for Kristina, a musical written by ABBA's Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus. Kristina was performed and recorded at Carnegie Hall, and also performed in London's Royal Albert Hall. Annbritt was also Mr. Gemignani’s Associate Music Director & pianist for the New York Philharmonic’s concert performances of Sondheim’s Company. Annbritt's other Broadway credits: Associate Music Director/Conductor for Disney’s Frozen, Associate Music Supervisor for Disney’s Aladdin Worldwide, Music Director for Mary Poppins, Associate Conductor for Billy Elliot, Pal Joey, Les Miserables (revival) , The Frogs, Into the Woods, Phantom Of The Opera, and Assistant Conductor for Kiss Me, Kate and Oklahoma. Annbritt is also an in-demand music director for upcoming musical theater projects in development. Earlier this year she was Music Director for Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey’s latest project, as well as for Alan Menken and Harvey Fierstein’s most recent musical project. Ms. duChateau is currently the Associate Music Supervisor for Disney’s Frozen Worldwide which will include a national tour in the USA as well as companies in London, Tokyo, Germany, Australia, Paris and Spain. Annbritt can be heard playing piano and keyboards on several Broadway cast recordings, most recently the Original Broadway Cast recordings of Aladdin and Frozen, as well as Menken’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Ms. duChateau lives in Westchester NY with her husband, Charles, who is a cellist and conductor on Broadway as well as an educator/String Orchestra Director in their local middle and high schools. They have 2 sons, Julien and Fabien.