Michael Moricz Click here for photographs Download Mr. Moricz's biography (MS Word) Composer & Conductor Michael is the former Resident Composer and Assistant Conductor for the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, where his orchestral ballet scores included The Mighty Casey, Amazing Grace and The Great Gatsby. Since 1991 he has created special arrangements for the Pittsburgh Symphony for such artists as Thomas Hampson, Kevin Glavin, David Budway, Demareus Cooper, Teddy Pendergrass and others. The PSO also premiered his compositions Memento and the “Hymn of Welcome” movement from the multi-composer commission Mozaika. In 1996 Michael succeeded Johnny Costa as the music director of Mister Rogers Neighborhood on PBS and has also composed original music for productions on the Fox, Disney, Showtime, PBS and Discovery networks. He has arranged and produced recordings for Opie Bellas, Daphne Alderson, Kevin Glavin and the acclaimed children’s album Time To Sing. Since 2001 Michael has been in New York where he’s worked as arranger or accompanist for Chita Rivera, Kander & Ebb, Linda Lavin, Tony Roberts, Bebe Neuwirth, the American Ballet Theatre, the Mark Morris Dance Group and others. He has collaborated several times with Broadway director/choreographer Lynne Taylor-Corbett, most recently on the ballet The Ugly Duckling, which Michael dedicated to the memory of Fred Rogers when it was premiered last year by the Carolina Ballet and North Carolina Symphony. Michael conducts CLO’s annual Gene Kelly Awards, Houston’s Tommy Tune Awards and has conducted numerous dance performances not only with the Benedum Center Orchestra but with the Buffalo Philharmonic, Virginia Symphony, North Carolina Symphony, the Pennsylvania Orchestra in Philadelphia and the Kennedy Center Orchestra at Wolf Trap.