Garth Edwin Sunderland

Sunderland is Vice President for Creative Projects for the Leonard Bernstein Office. He has represented Bernstein on Steven Spielberg’s 2021 film adaptation of West Side Story, as well as contributed orchestrations; for productions of Bernstein's work on Broadway; and for the Bayerische Staatsoper, Paris Opera, San Francisco Ballet and New York Philharmonic, among others. He created a new version of A Quiet Place, adapting the libretto and orchestration; a new orchestral work, Anniversaries for Orchestra, adapted from Bernstein’s piano works; the first performing edition of Peter Pan; a reduced orchestration of Trouble in Tahiti and the ballets Fancy Free and Dybbuk; and new editions of many of Bernstein’s concert works. He has also restored the film scores of West Side Story (1961) and On The Waterfront for live performance, and is the producer for West Side Story (2021) in Concert. As Artistic Director of the Lost Dog New Music Ensemble, he has produced the festivals ‘Nørgård in New York’ and ‘The UK Commotion!’.