Welcome to my Web Site!

If you've come this far, you probably already know that I am principally an orchestrator for Broadway, other theater, recordings, concerts and film. To answer your questions about what I do, use the links above.

Audio Clips on the Discography page! Clips of my orchestrations from various projects in mp3 format. Check them out! Click here.

Nominations:

2009 Drama Desk Nomination: Best Orchestrations (9 to 5)

 
Awards:
 TONY and Drama Desk Awards: The Light in the Piazza
(co-award with Ted Sperling and Adam Guettel)
OBIE Award: Floyd Collins

Previous nominations:
TONY Award: Grey Gardens, Urinetown
Drama Desk: Grey Gardens, The Light in the Piazza,
Floyd Collins, The Sound of Music, Urinetown

Shen Family Foundation
Musical Theater Leadership Award

 
Now Playing:

9 To 5 (Broadway)
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
(Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Ontario. Des McAnuff, dir.)
Recent:

Giant (Michael John LaChiusa, Sybille Pearson)
(Signature Theater, VA)
("sterling orchestrations" Washington Post)
Guys and Dolls (Broadway, Des McAnuff, dir.)
Happiness (Frankel/Korie; Susan Stroman, dir.)
("excitingly throbbing orchestrations" TalkinBroadway)
Silas (Bruce Coughlin, Michael Korie, Anthony Stein)
Second reading of my new musical based on the novel
Silas Marner with Bradley Dean, Jack Noseworthy, Brandi Burkhardt, Brooke Sunny Moriber, and more!
Wendy Bobbitt Cavett, MD.
Red Eye of Love (recording sessions)
The Grapes of Wrath (Ricky Ian Gordon, Michael Korie)
(Pittsburgh Opera)
"overwhelming", "a new -- and American -- song of the earth"
"The great American opera? Grapes of Wrath might be it"
(Opera Today)
"ever-shifting, often luminous orchestrations" (Star Tribune)
In Stores Now:

The Grapes of Wrath (Ricky Ian Gordon, Michael Korie)
listen to excerpts here (scroll down to "Opera")

Little Fish (Michael John LaChiusa)
listen to excerpts here (scroll down to "Shows")

Hairspray -- The Movie

Broadway Cast Album of Grey Gardens

"Mr. Coughlin's orchestration for "Grey Gardens" is ambrosia — I have been addicted to the CD for months. He has the woodwinds, in particular, burbling and blending and commenting on the songs in an intoxicating way — what that man can do with a bassoon alone. He is a Michelangelo of orchestration."

John McWhorter (Manhattan Institute) in an editorial commentary in the New York Sun (6/14/2007) about the 2007 TONY award for Best Orchestration. It's one man's opinion but makes for an interesting read: Read the NY Sun editorial here