Griffin Strout
Music Director — Pianist — Orchestrator — Copyist
Griffin Strout is a music director, pianist, conductor, orchestrator and copyist based in New York City.
He recently served as the rehearsal pianist for the Encores! production of Titanic at New York City Center. This summer, he will return to the College Light Opera Company for a fourth year to music direct Gypsy and Holiday Inn. Other recent selected credits include: Beauty and the Beast (City Springs Theater, MD & Conductor), Out of Myself: Songs of Peter Foley (Symphony Space, associate MD and addt'l orchestrations), Singin' In the Rain (College Light Opera Company), A Christmas Story (Arts Center of Coastal Carolina, Assoc. MD), Woman of the Year (J2 Spotlight, Assoc. MD). Griffin is a also a staff pianist for the Young People's Chorus of New York City and NYU Steinhardt.
An avid arranger and orchestrator, Griffin's work has been performed at Lincoln Center, Symphony Space and Princeton University. Passionate about new work, he has orchestrated several full-length original shows and led developmental workshops and readings as a music director at Amas Musical Theater and The York Theatre Company.
Griffin is a graduate of Yale University, where he served as an accompanist for the Yale School of Drama (YSD) and the Shen Curriculum for Musical Theater, and acted as the music director for numerous student productions.
