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.

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
Grammy Nomination:
 2008 GRAMMY Nomination
Best Musical Show Album
Grey Gardens

Now Playing:

9 To 5 (Dolly Parton) (Ahmanson Theater, LA)
Coming Up:

The Grapes of Wrath
(Pittsburgh Opera Nov 15, 18, 21, 23)
Guys and Dolls (Des McAnuff, dir.)
Happiness (Frankel/Korie; Susan Stroman, dir.)
9 To 5 (Broadway)
Giant (Michael John LaChiusa, Sybille Pearson)
(Kennedy Center, Signature Theater)
Ever After (Zina Goldrich, Marcy Heisler)
Going Hollywood (Jonathan Sheffer and David Zippel)
Recent:

Hairspray -- The Movie ("Miss Baltimore Crabs". With a 90 piece orchestra!).
Domingo Tribute (Metropolitan Opera: arranger and conductor)
It's Only Life (John Bucchino) (Rubicon Theater)
The Grapes of Wrath (Ricky Ian Gordon, Michael Korie)
(Concert suite premiere May 18th, Disney Hall, LA.
Grant Gershon, conductor)
"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)
Comedy Central: A Night of Too Many Stars
(Orchestrator and Conductor: opening number)
Silas (Bruce Coughlin, Michael Korie, Anthony Stein)
Reading of my new musical based on the novel Silas Marner
with Bradley Dean, Donna Lynne Champlin, Clarke Thorell, Erin Davie, Brooke Sunny Moriber, Robb Sapp and more!
Wendy Bobbitt Cavett, MD.
Grey Gardens (on Broadway, at the Walter Kerr)
(by Scott Frankel, Michael Korie, Doug Wright;
Michael Greif, dir.)
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