Great music directors are masterful sculptors! They sculpt everything and everyone involved in a single seamless musical outcome!

That’s why some of the world’s greatest bands and top artists use of a music director for their live act or album.

In fact, music directors work in diverse environments that range from tours and recordings of commercial artists to musical theatre, show bands, cruise ships and reality TV shows.

Our music directors are masters of their function!

They can:

•  Select, supervise and direct the music for a band.
• Audition and pick members of a band or orchestra if required.
• Take musical decisions for the production.
• Be responsible for total musical direction - from the production of shows to writing out sheet music and arrangement.
• Select songs and merge set lists.
• Work with the technical crew on sound, microphones, balance and all tech aspects.
• Collaborate with artistic directors in all musical matters, including casting decisions.
• Maintain discipline.
• Delegate any aspect of these functions to an Assistant Music Director.
• Play the role of band leaders - conducting the band as a unit and maintaining discipline.

HD’s superb music directors possess all the incredible qualities their intricate function entails. Some can be learnt. Others are inherent. Our Musical Directors have them all!

• Extensive knowledge of music theory - and of its holistic application in all contexts.
• Some of the best musical ears in the business - listening with intent and intention.
• Phenomenal musical instincts - having a natural feel for producing the best.
• An inherent ability to synthesise the diverse skills and capabilities of a diverse range of people into a symbiotic whole.
• Immense aptitude for managing talent - extracting the finest performances from artists and musicians of any temperament.
• The ability to communicate in the specific lexicons of everyone involved - choreographers, designers, directors, sound designers, and technical directors.

Ultimately, our Music Directors have an innate sense of theatricality - masters of projecting dramatic intention through any type of music. They can seamlessly switch gears from raging rock guitar riffs to soaring symphonic strings, and from mellifluous soprano singing to jagged full-throated rock.

Their versatility is totally at home in all worlds.

That’s why we work with a vast spectrum of artists and musicians across every realm of the glorious world of music.

Let our Music Directors sculpt the musical performance you require, deftly!