James Valcq

James Valcq (born 1963 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an American musical theatre composer, lyricist, & librettist, as well as an actor and arts administrator.

Valcq holds a BFA (from the University of Wisconsin–Madison with an applied voice major and an MFA from NYU’s Musical Theatre Writing Program. He began his professional career as a boy soprano singing in Alban Berg's Wozzeck with the Skylight Comic Opera and Amahl and the Night Visitors with the Milwaukee Opera Company. For the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, he sang George Crumb's Ancient Voices of Children under conductor Arthur Weisberg and under Kenneth Schermerhorn for Pro Musica Nova. He also played roles in , appearing with John Raitt, Karen Morrow, Margaret Whiting, and Dave Madden. At age 19, he won first place in the student auditions of the National Association of Teachers of Singing. He performed Morton Gould's Hoofer Suite with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. Valcq had begun composing while still in college and eventually abandoned performing to concentrate on composing and conducting. In addition to musicals, Valcq has composed song cycles and choral pieces which have been performed in the U.S. and Europe.

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