Todd Schroeder sits beneath his pork-pie hat having the time of his life. He is a brilliantly talented pianist, composer, director, producer, arranger, songwriter and certainly one of the hardest-working music directors in the world with the prestigious L.A Stage Alliance awarding him their Ovation Award for “Best Musical Direction” and BroadwayWorld.com named him their “Musical Director of the Year”.  Over Schroeder’s career he has worked with such celebrities as Jason Alexander, Leslie Odom Jr., Tom Jones, Rita Coolidge, Sam Harris and for over 20 years with the legendary Angela Lansbury including her recent performance in “Mary Poppins Returns”. Todd also music directs and performs with the superstar retro-pop group “Postmodern Jukebox”.   In addition to performing as music director for various artists on daytime and late night talk shows including “The Oprah Winfrey Show” and the “The Late, Late Show”, Schroeder acts as music and vocal director for various live performance shows including Disney’s “Aladdin , A Musical Spectacular” and Universal Studios Japan’s productions of “Wicked” in Osaka, Japan. Todd has composed music for film, television and stage including “Unbeatable, A Bold New Musical”, “Braveheart, das Musical”, the new romantic comedy “Longing4Love.com” and the off Broadway hit, “HAM, A Musical Memoir” with Sam Harris. Todd is very proud to be the founder of the “Todd Schroeder Young Artist Grant”, an annual scholarship that for over 20 twenty years has been presented to graduating high school students that wish to pursue a career in the arts. ToddSchroederMusic.com