Michael Haslam

Michael Haslam studied at Oxford University and Guildhall, where he was Professor of Ensemble Singing. Recent work in the West End includes Musical Supervision at the Donmar Warehouse on Good and Associate MD on Into the Woods . Other work includes Habeas Corpus , also for the Donmar, Dickens’ Women, The Sneeze, Mr and Mrs Nobody, The Sloane Rangers’ Revue, Show Boat, A Little Night Music, New Edna – the Spectacle , and Maria Friedman’s one woman show By Extra Special Arrangement . He also conducted the orchestra on her solo album and accompanied her in her New York debut at the Carlyle.

Previously for the NT, he has been MD for Honk! The Ugly Duckling and 2002’s Play Without Words , both of which won Olivier Awards, as well as The Wind in the Willows, Les Parents Terribles and The Children’s Hour . He also conducted Sunday in the Park with George, Sweeney Todd and The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui . He was MD for Honk! at the Stephen Joseph Theatre Scarborough, Gypsy at the Everyman, Cheltenham, Privates on Parade at Birmingham Rep, Dames at Sea at the Oldham Colosseum, Jekyll at the Churchill, Bromley and Lock up your Daughters at Chichester.

He has performed and accompanied many recitals from the classical repertoire in London and Europe, giving the first performance of the Philip Marshall piano concerto in Lincoln Minster. He is a founder-member of Commedia, a flute, cello and piano trio which won the Park Lane Group Young Musicians award. For three years he played for Piano Circus, with whom he made five CDs, and he recorded Stravinsky’s Les Noces with Vladimir Ashkenazy. Other projects include composing and performing the signature music for Radio 4’s productions of Murder on the Orient Express and Sad Cypress , composing incidental music for The Governor’s Consort, and appearing as accompanist for Words in Music.

He was the MD for a private entertainment for HM Queen Elizabeth II in St James’ Palace to celebrate the 50th anniversary of her coronation.