DeReau K. Farrar

DeReau is Artistic Director of Portland's queer and allied youth choir, Bridging Voices and Artistic Director of A Notion, A Scream, a Portland community choir. Additionally, 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. DeReau was Musical Director for the 2022 Portland Revels Spring production of Un Pajarito Canto and Musical Director for the 2023 Portland Center Stage production of Choir Boy, and he is excited to make his Portland Opera debut with their 2024 production of The Juliet Letters. Prior to moving to Portland in 2016, he was a music director in Los Angeles where he worked with 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.