Michael Starobin

RECENT NEWS: Michael's orchestrations can now be heard in the new Broadway hit Next to Normal. The new CD can be found on Sh-K-Boom Records. Michael (and co-orchestrater Tom Kitt) won the 2009 Tony for Best Orchestrations (tying with Martin Koch for Billy Elliot.)

Presently, Michael is working on orchestrations and arrngements for the upcoming Dinsey animated film, Rapunzel. This year he is scheduled to work on Barry Wyner's Calvin Berger and James Lapine's Sondheim on Sondheim.

Other projects are in development - James Lapine's Mrs. Miller Does Her Thing, Alan Menken and Glen Slater's Leap of Faith, William Finn and James Lapine's Little Miss Sunshine, Iris Rainer Dart, Mike Stoller and Artie Butler's Laughing Matters, and Mary Testa's one woman show, Sleepless Variations.

Blogging! Michael's is starting to blog a bit more. Check it out here. He twitters at "starobin" - latest tweets to the right.

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 and Assassins (2004 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 version of Chicago.

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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