Michael Starobin
RECENT NEWS: Michael's orchestrations can presently be heard in the new Broadway hit Next to Normal. The CD was released 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 arrangements for the upcoming Dinsey animated film, Tangled. He is just starting to co-orchestrate (with Joseph Joubert) Alan Menken, Glen Slater and Janus Cercone's Leap of Faith at the Ahmanson Theater in Los Angeles. He recently orchestrated James Lapine's Sondheim on Sondheim
Michael and Mary Testa are playing a one night concert at the Cape May Stage, Monday, July 12th at 8pm. We hope to bring the same program to a venue in Manhattan this fall.
This winter he will be orchestrating William Finn and James Lapine's Little Miss Sunshine for the La Jolla Playhouse, and Iris Rainer Dart, Mike Stoller and Artie Butler's Laughing Matters for the Roundabout.
Michael has been recently been composing pieces for Josh Rosenblum's group The Pit Stop Players.
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, 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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