S7: E143 Book Series: The Language of Music with Michelle Margiotta

Season Seven

Episode 143

Book Series: The Language of Music with Michelle Margiotta

Michelle's Website

Dr. Michelle Margiotta is a composer, arranger, and music educator. Those who have worked alongside her give great acclaim to both her orchestrations and compositions, as well as to Michelle herself. "...the most unique aspect of her gifts is her extraordinary ability to orchestrate. When you hear one of her arrangements - your heart, mind and soul can't help but sour...", Kathy Troccoli, award-winning singer/songwriter. Producer Sal Oliveri might sum it up best when he says, "Michelle is truly a gifted storyteller with a unique ability to take you on an emotional journey. Her orchestrations are distinctly imaginative..."

For the past year, Michelle has been orchestrating and arranging The God of the Other Side & The God of the How and When Oratorios, as well as The Shalom Reprise and Overture with Emmy & Tony Award-winning singer/songwriter and producer Kathie Lee Gifford.

The oratorios are the second major orchestral pieces centered on Biblical excerpts that Michelle has had the privilege of composing; in 2017 she completed a four-movement symphony entitled PSALM 46: A Song Of The Sons Of Korah. By incorporating geographically and historically appropriate scales and modes as well as contemporary musicality, the composer explores the hope and security we can find in God and other themes central to the Psalm on which it is based.

For the past eight years, she has traveled with Dove Award-winning and Grammy-nominated artist, Kathy Troccoli, as her full-time piano and guitar accompanist. Michelle has also played events with Christian artists such as Kelly Minter and Laura Story.

Michelle holds a Bachelor's of Music Education from Lee University in Cleveland, TN, as well as a Master's in Jazz Composition and Arranging and a D.M.A. in Composition from Five Towns College in NY. She has a strong passion for music education and has taught at the collegiate level for ten years, as well as teaching countless private students. In an effort to make music accessible to an even broader audience, her book, The Language of Music, An Introduction to the Basics of Music Theory was released in Fall of 2020. Originally from Long Island, New York, Michelle now resides in Nashville, Tennessee, where she has already been warmly embraced by the creative community.

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