Michael Starobin

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Queen of the Mist by Michael-John LaChiusa, starring Mary Testa

Michael blogs (a bit) on this site - check it out here. Recently found recipes, poems and CDs of interest can be found here. He twitters at "starobin".

Michael Starobin is a well-known orchestrator and arranger working on Broadway and in Hollywood. He has been the orchestrator for some of Broadway's most innovative musicals such as Falsettos, Sunday in the Park with George, Assassins (2004 Tony Award for Best Orchestrations) and Next to Normal (2009 Tony Award for Best Orchestrations). He was the conductor and orchestrator for Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame, and recently contributed orchestrations to Disney's Once Upon a Mattress and the film versions of Chicago and Nine.

Click here to hear a NPR interview with Michael (and Jonathan Tunick) about orchestration.

Michael has written an article for the "Sondheim Review" about his orchestrations for "Assassins". Click here to read it. This article originally started as a blog on this site.

Recent composition work includes songs and score for the 1999, 2000, 2003 & 2005 Ringling Bros., Barnum & Bailey Circuses, and composing songs and score for the McCarter Theatre's yearly production of A Christmas Carol. Click here for a full listing of Michael's credits.

Feel free to e-mail Michael.

Check out Bridge Records, a label run by my brother David and his wife Becky.

Try Local 802 for the latest union orchestration scales.

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