DeReau K. Farrar

DeReau K. Farrar is Artistic Director of A Notion, A Scream, Artistic Director of Bridging Voices, and Director of Music Ministry for Ainsworth United Church of Christ. 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’s local theater and opera credits include Portland Center Stage (Lizard Boy, 2026, Music Director; Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, 2025, Music Consultant; The Brothers Size, 2025, Music Consultant; Sweeney Todd, 2024, Music Director/Conductor; Choir Boy, 2023, Music Director), Portland Playhouse (A Christmas Carol, 2025, Music Director), Portland Opera (The Juliet Letters, 2024, Music Director/Conductor), and the Portland Revels (Un Pajarito Canto, 2022, Music Director). 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.