Richard Martorano

Dr. Richard Martorano

While attending Hollywood Professional School,
Dr. Martorano began his career as a teenager at ABC Television in Hollywood California working as a rehearsal pianist for the Lawrence Welk TV Show. He began playing the piano at age five and ended his secondary school training studying as a piano student of Madame Julia D’ bal Zunica from the faculty of The Los Angeles Conservatory of music (which became The California Institute of the Arts).

After a two year enlistment in the US Navy,
Dr. Martorano received his Bachelor and Master Degrees in Music Composition from Florida State University. He later earned a Master's Degree in Music Education from Rollins College, a Doctorate Degree in Music and Broadcast Communications from California Western University and completed
a Post Graduate Fellowship at California Institute of the Arts.

He has served as adjunct faculty in the performing arts, humanities and mass communications at Daytona Beach Community College, Florida State University, Florida Technological University (UCF), and Rollins College. He was Director of
the Broadcast Communications Program in the Division of Mass Communications
at Bethune-Cookman College. He has taught privately throughout his career
and has touched hundreds of students.

Dr. Martorano and his music production companies have produced community
and professional theatre performances including:

•	“Bye, Bye, Birdie”	•	“Oliver”
•	“Fiddler on the Roof”	•	“Music Man”
•	“Unsinkable Molly Brown”	•	“Anything Goes”
•	“Sound of Music”	•	“Mama”
•	“The Fortune Teller”	•	“I’ll Banner”
•	“Man of La Mancha”	•	“The King and I”
•	“Once upon a Mattress”	•	“Paint Your Wagon”
•	“Jesus Christ Superstar”	•	“The Pajama Game”
•	“Peace, Love & Rock and Roll”	•	“Remember When”
•	“Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream coat”	•	“Jesus On Broadway”

As a performer with his own show bands, he has appeared at the finest supper clubs, hotels and night clubs in the country. As a soloist or accompanist / Music director, he has worked with:

•	The Letterman	•	Anita Bryant
•	George Goble	•	Mickey Rooney
•	Jim Bacus (Mr. Magoo)	•	Frank Fontaine
•	Donald O’Connor	•	Cab Calloway
•	The June Taylor Dancers	•	Kay Ballard
•	Gabriel’s Brass (Walt Disney World)	•	Various Other Celebrities

He has produced Celebrity concerts that include:

•	Marilyn McCoo	•	Debbie Reynolds
•	Bobby Rydell	•	Kay Starr
•	Richard Simmons	•	The Association
•	Jack LaLanne	•	Robert Merrill
•	Louise Mandrell	•	Kurt Thomas
•	Art Linkletter	•	The Letterman
•	Four Lads	•	Four Aces
•	The Four Freshman	•	4HIM’
•	BJ Thomas	•	Juice Newton
•	Kay Ballard	•	George Goble
•	Steve Green	•	Wayne Watson

... and virtually all of the big bands from the 40’s and 50’s. As a professional pianist and singer, he has performed on the Mike Douglas, Ray Anthony and Rosemary Clooney TV shows.

For information on our performers, call Rick Martorano at 386-428-1228 or
386-679-5181. You may also send us an e-mail from our Contact Us page.