Michael Roth Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, San Diego, New York, Stratford (Canada) And Elsewhere

MICHAEL ROTH'S WORK HAS BEEN CALLED MUSIC ONE COULD IMAGINE CHARLES IVES COMPOSING HAD HE ENCOUNTERED BEAT POETRY AND ROCK & ROLL.His work encompasses chamber music, new opera, film, dance, and especially music and sound for theatre - over 250 productions throughout North America including Broadway, off-Broadway, Canada's Stratford Festival, and as a resident artist at both South Coast Rep and La Jolla Playhouse. Michael is also known for many collaborations with Randy Newman as music director, pianist, arranger, and editor.Recent projects: THE WEB OPERA - streaming now: https://www.thewebopera.com; with Tom Hanks, HENRY IV (Los Angeles, 2018); with Christopher Plummer, THE TEMPEST (Stratford Festival/film); A WORD OR TWO (Stratford/LA); his chamber music/theatre treatment of Samuel Beckett's IMAGINATION DEAD IMAGINE for string quartet, recorded voices, laptop; piano sonatas FATS NOVEMBER & TUESDAY FOR TOY PIANO, premiered by Mark Robson/Piano Spheres; documentary JEWS & BASEBALL (PBS); with Tom Stoppard, US premieres of INDIAN INK & INVENTION OF LOVE; PAMPLONA with Stacy Keach as Ernest Hemingway; additional work with, among many others, Anne Bogart, Culture Clash, Des McAnuff, Carey Perloff, Tony Randall, Daniel Sullivan, MacArthur Fellows Sarah Ruhl, Peter Sellars, Sam Hunter, Bill Irwin, and Pulitzer Prize premieres by Margaret Edson & Donald Margulies. As a pianist he has accompanied singers from Madonna to Marni Nixon and Alicia Keyes. His work with Randy Newman include music direction for Disney's PRINCESS & THE FROG, orchestrations for FAUST, including the NY concert version for which he provided new orchestrations & played piano with Randy, and editing 5 anthologies.A spokesperson for FINALE, fellow at the Sundance Composers Lab, & the Baku Forum, Azerbaijan, Michael has composed for the UN and graduated from the University of Michigan where he studied with William Bolcom. His work is available via iTunes, CDBaby, and rothmusik.wix.com/rothmusik

Stratford, Ontario, Canada

Composed score for A WORD OR TWO, one-man show with Christopher Plummer (2012);Composed score for THE TEMPEST with Christopher Plummer as Prospero (2010), also filmed for theatrical release, broadcast by Bravo (2011), and DVD, directed by Des McAnuff.Composed score for TWELFTH NIGHT, featuring Brian Dennehy (2011), also filmed for theatrical release and Bravo. Also composed the scores for Stratford's ROMEO & JULIET, McAnuff's premiere production as artistic director (2008), MACBETH, featuring Colm Feore (2009), AS YOU LIKE IT, co-composed with Justin Ellington (2010), DANGEROUS LIASONS (2010), and HENRY V (2012).

Composed music, designed sound, music directed over 55 productions, including The Roommate (2017), Abundance, Whipping Man (2015), Rest* (2014), The Whale (2013), Prince of Atlantis* (2012), Pride & Prejudice (2011), Misalliance (2010), What They Have*, Importance of Being Earnest (2008), Nothing Sacred (2006), Terra Nova, Last Night of Ballyhoo (2003), The Circle, Nostalgia* (2001), All My Sons (2000), Summer Moon*, The Philanderer (1999), Ah Wilderness, Arcadia (1998), Pygmalion, Death of a Salesman, Triumph of Love (1997), An Ideal Husband, Arms & the Man, Taming of the Shrew (1996), The Cherry Orchard, Ghost in the Machine (1995), Night & Her Stars*, Green Icebergs*, A Streetcar Named Desire (1994), Shadowlands, Great Day in the Morning* (1993), Woman in Mind, Boundary Waters*, Noah Johnson* (1992), The Caretaker, The Extra Man*, El Dorado*, Russian Teacher*, Pirates*, Heartbreak House (1991), Man & Superman, Holy Days (1990), Breaking the Code, Abundance* (1989), The Crucible (1988); * denotes world premiere; for more information: http://rothmusik.wix.com/rothmusik

Composed music, designed sound, music directed over 35 productions, including: Sideways (2013), The Scottish Play* (2005), Eden Lane* (2003), Billy the Kid (2001), Going to St. Ives (2000), School for Wives, Importance of Being Earnest (1998), Valley Song (1997), Good Person of Setzuan, Triumph of Love, Harvey (1994), Luck Pluck & Virtue*, The Hairy Ape, Arms & the Man (1993), Much Ado About Nothing, Le Petomane*, The Glass Menagerie (1992), Fortinbras*, The Three Sisters (1991), Twelfth Night (1990), Down the Road* (1989), Man With No Story*, Two Rooms*, Once in a Lifetime (1988), Hedda Gabler, The Matchmaker (1987), Three Cuckolds* (1986), The Sea Gull, Ghost on Fire* (1985), As You Like It (1984), Romeo & Juliet, The Visions of Simone Machard (1983). * denotes world premiere; for more information: http://rothmusik.wix.com/rothmusik

Composed the score for this documentary, directed by Peter Miller, written by Ira Berkow, narrated by Dustin Hoffman - featuring the first documentary interview with Sandy Koufax. At theatres and festivals throughout 2010-2011, many broadcasts on PBS in 2011-12; for more information and clips - http://rothmusik.wix.com/rothmusik

Music Direction for Randy Newman's HARPS AND ANGELS, music/theatre - conceived by Jack Viertel, directed by Jerry Zaks.

Worked as a music director, vocal coach, and arranger for Randy Newman's songs for the Disney Animated Feature THE PRINCESS & THE FROG.

Composed score for Independent film by Matt Wilder, starring Bill Pullman - recently premiered at CineVegas - for details: http://cinevegas.bside.com/2008/films/yournamehere_cinevegas2008

Bachelor'S Degree, Music Theory And Composition

Bachelor'S Degree, Music And Theatre

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