music director | pianist | composer | educator

A native of Buffalo, New York, Paul Marszalkowski has been plying his craft internationally as a music director, vocal coach, pianist, composer, and arranger for the past twenty years. He holds a Master's degree in Musical Theatre from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow and a Bachelor's degree in Music Education from SUNY Fredonia.

Currently located on the gorgeous Central Coast of California, Paul is a Resident Music Director at PCPA - Pacific Conservatory Theater.

Past Music Direction work internationally includes an actor-musician version of Return to the Forbidden Planet at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland; new musical Under the Ground by Katie Barnett and Megan Hughes, premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2015; Showstoppers!, a benefit concert in Zambia which raised over $20,000 for charitable organizations; Swingin' Into Christmas, a big band holiday show; and AMD/Associate Conductor/Pianist for West Side Story at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

In the States, Paul has worked as the Resident Music Director for the Texas Shakespeare Festival, as well as taught university at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and the University of Mississippi. In the past, he worked in rotating repertory as AMD and pianist with Weathervane Theatre in New Hampshire. Favorite productions there include Memphis, Next to Normal, Once on This Island, Avenue Q, and the regional premiere of Young Frankenstein.

Paul has been heard around the world as a pianist on the Cunard Queen Elizabeth and the P&O Britannia.

As a composer, his young adult musical Spirit has been performed multiple times by colleges, high schools, and regional theater companies in both New York and Wisconsin. He wrote music and lyrics for Erik Stein’s Christmas at the Prime Rib Playhouse, which recently premiered at the Oregon Cabaret Theatre. Paul’s Theatre for Young Audiences adaptions of Treasure Island and The Emperor's New Clothes (with Kirsti Carnahan) and The Purple Marble (with Leo Cortez) have toured around California and the northeastern United States.