Michael Sobie is an award-winning pianist with credits encompassing film, television, and stage.

 

Michael is the pianist and conductor for Ramin Djawadi’s score to Reminiscence as well as the pianist for the composer's Surreal album, written to accompany the water feature by the same name at the World Expo in Dubai. He was selected by Djawadi to conduct the Game of Thrones Live Concert Experience, having previously worked with the composer as keyboardist and assistant conductor of three prior GoT tours. Screen credits include Locke and Key, Amazing Stories, A Wrinkle in Time, The Mountain Between Us, A Christmas Story: Live, Too Funny to Fail, John Piscitello’s score for Memory Games, and Noah Baumbach’s Oscar-winning Marriage Story. Michael has toured the US and world as a pianist and conductor of Broadway musicals Wicked, Les Miserables, Altar Boyz, Aida, and Xanadu, and had a five-year tenure as the pops pianist for the Grand Rapids Symphony Orchestra from 2012-2017. TV credits include Grace and Frankie, Why Women Kill, and Alter Ego, as well as commercials for Honda.

 

Michael has been a music director with Lythgoe Family Productions since first joining them in 2014. He has played with artists such as Ariana Grande, Scarlett Johansson, Carole Cook, and the Los Angeles Ballet. In 2019, he and Shawn Ryan wrote their first full-scale musical, Hell on Earth, garnering the pair and cast rave reviews after their NYC premiere in January 2020, which featured Tony Award-winner Laurie Metcalf. Recent projects include conducting Evan and Zane Plus Orchestra, orchestrating and arranging for Joely Fisher with the American Pops Orchestra, composing the original score to an all-new, critically-acclaimed stage adaptation of Gods and Monsters, and producing, arranging, and orchestrating his concert Rocket Man, an homage to Elton John which features Michael playing and singing 21 classic hits accompanied by a full symphony orchestra. 2025 will see Michael’s Off-Broadway orchestrational debut with the musical Fetching Water. He has music directed countless musicals, benefit concerts, cabarets, and concerts, regularly performs as a soloist and alongside the Orchid Quartet for the Candlelight Concerts series in Los Angeles, and has played — literally — thousands of musical theatre auditions. 

 

Michael resides in Los Angeles where he acts as a music director, conductor, pianist, arranger, composer, and vocal coach. He is married to his favorite husband, Gino.