Michael Starobin (born January 25, 1956) is an American orchestrator, conductor, composer, 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).
[1] He has provided the orchestrations for 21 Broadway musicals,[2] 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 wrote 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).
[6] Starobin provided orchestrations for the television movie musicals Once Upon a Mattress (2005) [7] and A Christmas Carol (2004), among others.