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The Public Theatre, New York City, Frances Ruffelle with composer Jude Obermüller.jpg
The Kennedy Center, Washington DC, Frances Ruffelle with composer Jude Obermüller.png
Pizza Express Live, Holborn, London, Frances Ruffelle with composer Jude Obermüller.png
Crazy Coqs, Live at Zedel, London, Frances Ruffelle with composer Jude Obermüller.jpg
Feinstein's 54 Below, New York City, Paul Baker with composer Jude Obermüller.jpg
Live at the Hippodrome, Lydia Lauren, with composer Jude Obermüller.jpg
Joe's Pub @ The Public Theatre, New York City, Frances Ruffelle with composer Jude Obermüller.jpg
The Duplex Cabaret Bar, Jonathan Demar, directed by Robbie Rozzelle, with composer Jude Obermüller.jpg
London Festival of Cabaret, Xara Vaughan, with composer Jude Obermüller.jpg
Andrew Lloyd Webber's Other Palace Theatre, London Frances Ruffelle with composer Jude Obermüller.png
The Nightingale Room, Brighton, Small Guy in a Big World: The Songs of Jude Obermüller.jpg
The Battersea Barge, London, Samantha Barks, with composer Jude Obermüller.jpg
The Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Xara Vaughan, with composer Jude Obermüller.jpg
The Jermyn Street Theatre, Off West End, London, Xara Vaughan, with composer Jude Obermüller.png
The Brighton Festival, Xara Vaughan, with composer Jude Obermüller.png

FRANCES RUFFELLE

Jude has worked as Musical Director for the Tony Award-winning Frances Ruffelle since 2014. Together, they collaborated on Paris Original (St. James Theatre [now The Other Palace], London) and I Say Yeh Yeh (The Kennedy Center, D.C. and Joe's Pub @ The Public, Off-Broadway, NYC) as well as one off performances at London's Crazy Coqs. They recently inaugurated the new Pizza Express Live, Holborn.

Frances Ruffelle @ The Kennedy Center

“Ms. Ruffelle received the loudest and longest applause of the night after she sang “On My Own” from atop a grand piano, accompanied by music director John [Jude!] Obermüller...”
— Broadway World
“Backed up by the top-notch musical direction and piano of Jude Obermüller and a superior, innovative three-piece instrumental ensemble, Ruffelle is a Brit who expertly channeled the erotic sensuality and playfulness of several French love songs...”
— DC Metro Theatre Arts
“Truly glorious. (Sometimes curious). Always fabulous. Ruffelle & Obermüller have our boundless admiration...a never-to-be-forgotten show.”
— Tony & Gen Walton

Frances Ruffelle @ The Other Palace

XARA VAUGHAN

Between 2013-2015, Jude had the pleasure of collaborating with eminent cabaret star Xara Vaughan, as her Musical Director & Arranger. Together, they worked on Xara Vaughan (Associate Musical Director with Mark Aspinall) and On the Sunny Side of the Street (both Edinburgh Fringe, 2013 & 2015), Xara With an X (Brighton Festival 2014), Russell Grant: Strictly Edinburgh (Edinburgh Festival 2014), as well as both of her Norwegian Tours (2013 & 2014), and her electric shows at Gilgamesh Camden (video below) and the Jermyn Street Theatre for her London Festival of Cabaret debut.

Xara with an X 2014

“...every assistance is given by a wonderful accompanist in Jude Obermüller. This Royal College of Music graduate is only 23, yet has already written an opera and a number of songs, one of which, ‘That Face’, Vaughan included in her set and to which she did full justice. He is every bit a name to watch...”
— Musical Theatre Review
“Accompanied by an excellent trio of drums, keyboard, bass...simply beautiful.”
— ★★★★★ Edinburgh Guide
“The band...were equally well rehearsed and functioned beautifully well, (well done gentlemen).”
— ★★★★½ The Edinburgh Reporter

PAUL BAKER

Jude worked as Musical Director for the Olivier Award-winning Paul Baker, on his show A Baker's Dozen. Hear the live recording of Paul's seminal song 'Petrified' from Boy George's Taboo (orchestrated and arranged by Jude).

with Paul Baker in Characters, NYC, post-54 Below

with Paul Baker in Characters, NYC, post-54 Below

with Paul Baker, on stage at 54 Below

with Paul Baker, on stage at 54 Below

OTHER NOTABLE APPEARANCES...

- Associate Musical Director (alongside Antonius Nazareth) for Travis Kent's 54 Below debut, My First Time; 

- Musical Director and Arranger for Jonathan Demar's Setting the Standard (The Duplex, New York);

- Musical Director for The Vampire Cabaret (Bosco Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe Festival);

- Musical Director and Arranger for various events on the Battersea Barge (with artists including Samantha Barks & Tyrone Huntley);

- Musical Director and Arranger for Lydia Lauren @ The London Hippodrome (Video below. Nick Breakspear on bass).