About Steve Orich
Steve Orich aka Steven Oirich (born October 20, 1954, in Valley Stream, New York) is a composer, orchestrator and musical director. He is best known for his work on the musical Jersey Boys, for which he received a Tony Award nomination for Best Orchestrations. == Early life and Education == Orich was born in Valley Stream, New York, and began playing piano at age eight. He studied music composition at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He pursued further musical training in orchestration, arranging, and conducting at the Manhattan School of Music, and studied electronic music and synthesizer programming at The New School. He also completed musical studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and studied arranging and orchestration with Don Sebesky. == Professional work == Steve Orich was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Orchestrations in 2006 for his work on Jersey Boys which won the Tony Award for Best Musical on Broadway. The album also won the 2006 Grammy Award. He has written orchestrations for such shows as The Cher Show, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Paint Your Wagon, 110 in the Shade and Cole Porter's You Never Know and Can-Can at the Pasadena Playhouse and the Paper Mill Playhouse as well as Stephen Schwartz's Snapshots.
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