DeReau K. Farrar

DeReau K. Farrar is Artistic Director of A Notion, A Scream and Bridging Voices, and Director of Music Ministry for the Ainsworth United Church of Christ. He sings with Resonance Ensemble and served on its Artistic Advisory Team for the 2022 premiere of Damien Geter's An African American Requiem with the Oregon Symphony. His opera and theater credits include Portland Center Stage's Lizard Boy (2026) as Music Director, Little Women (2025) as Music Consultant, The Brothers Size (2025) as Music Consultant, Sweeney Todd (2024) as Music Director/Conductor, and Choir Boy (2023) as Music Director; Profile Theatre’s Spain (2026) as Music Director; Portland Playhouse's A Christmas Carol (2025) as Music Director; Portland Opera's The Juliet Letters (2024) as Music Director/Conductor; Portland Revels' Un Pajarito Canto (2022) as Music Director. In Los Angeles, A Noise Within (The Threepenny Opera, A Christmas Carol), DC6 Singers (SxSW, Jessye Norman’s Stand Up Straight and Sing! Tour, Sundance, Norman Lear, Jerry Kohl), Monkeypaw Productions (Get Out), HBO (All the Way), Selah Gospel Choir (Coachella, RuPaul’s DragCon), University of California Los Angeles (The First Lady), California State University Los Angeles (A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum), The Verdi Chorus, The RED Stamp (The Wiz, Ragtime, Songs for a New World), MUSE/IQUE Symphony Orchestra, and others.