Name Michael Starobin Siblings David Starobin | Nieces Allegra Rose Starobin | |
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Role Orchestrator ยท starobin.com Nephews Robert Joseph Starobin III Awards Tony Award for Best Orchestrations, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Orchestrations Nominations Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Multiple Camera Editing Similar People David Starobin, Tom Kitt, Brian Yorkey, Michael Greif, William Finn | ||
The producer s perspective podcast episode 59 michael starobin
Michael Starobin is an orchestrator, arranger, and musical director, primarily for the stage, film and television. He won Tony awards for the orchestrations of Assassins (2004) and Next to Normal (2009 with Tom Kitt).
Contents
- The producer s perspective podcast episode 59 michael starobin
- New album have faith finds mary testa and michael starobin asking the big questions
- Career
- Work selected
- References
New album have faith finds mary testa and michael starobin asking the big questions
Career
The first Broadway musical that Starobin provided the orchestrations for was Sunday in the Park with George in 1984, for which he won the 1984 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Orchestration. He has done the orchestrations for 21 Broadway musicals, 2 special concerts, including the benefit concert of Sunday in the Park with George, and was the Musical Director for The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1985).
He has also provided orchestrations, or been the Musical Director, for many off-Broadway musicals. He did the orchestrations for several works by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, such as Once on This Island (1990), as well as William Finn, including In Trousers (1985), Falsettoland (1990) (Musical Director), and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (2005).
He did the orchestrations for Next to Normal (2009), for which he won the Tony Award for Best Orchestrations.
Starobin provided orchestrations for the television movie musicals Once Upon a Mattress (2005) and A Christmas Carol (2004), among others.
He has been collaborating with singer Mary Testa, in performances and recordings. He plays piano and a little tuba.