Sariva Goetz - Bio
Sariva Goetz has been a professional music director, conductor, pianist, and educator since 1984. She has played keyboards for and/or conducted numerous Broadway shows including 10 years as the assistant conductor and first keyboard player for the original Broadway production of Les Miserables. Other Broadway credits include Aladdin, Sister Act, Mamma Mia, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Miss Saigon, Guys & Dolls, City of Angels, The Secret Garden, Once on This Island, Starlight Express, Romance/Romance, and the first revival of Sweeney Todd. She was the music director for the off-Broadway production of Splendora at the American Place Theatre and at the Bay St. Theatre in Sag Harbor, NY, directed by Jack Hofsiss, as well as The Jerusalem Syndrome at the New York Musical Theatre Festival. She has done two productions of Really Rosie, one directed by Marcia Milgrom Dodge and the other directed by author Maurice Sendak, for which she also wrote incidental music. She recently served as music director for the pre-Broadway production of Empire, the Musical at the La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts.
Regionally, Sariva has conducted and/or orchestrated shows at the Cleveland Playhouse, Cape Playhouse, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Baltimore Center Stage, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Goodspeed Opera House, and Bucks County Playhouse. She has performed with Bob McGrath and Maria and Luis from Sesame Street and has also served as pianist for many Broadway pops concerts, most notably with the Long Island Philharmonic. Equally comfortable working with celebrities, professionals, amateurs, or students, Sariva has coached hundreds of musical theatre performers for auditions, shows, and cabaret.
Sariva is a member of the musical theatre faculty at Emerson College in Boston and has also taught at American University in Washington, DC, SUNY New Paltz, New Jersey City University, and New York University.
Sariva was a founding member and co-chair of the Music Directors Committee of Local 802, American Federation of Musicians. She holds a Master of Arts from New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study and a Bachelor of Music from the University of Arizona.
Regionally, Sariva has conducted and/or orchestrated shows at the Cleveland Playhouse, Cape Playhouse, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Baltimore Center Stage, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Goodspeed Opera House, and Bucks County Playhouse. She has performed with Bob McGrath and Maria and Luis from Sesame Street and has also served as pianist for many Broadway pops concerts, most notably with the Long Island Philharmonic. Equally comfortable working with celebrities, professionals, amateurs, or students, Sariva has coached hundreds of musical theatre performers for auditions, shows, and cabaret.
Sariva is a member of the musical theatre faculty at Emerson College in Boston and has also taught at American University in Washington, DC, SUNY New Paltz, New Jersey City University, and New York University.
Sariva was a founding member and co-chair of the Music Directors Committee of Local 802, American Federation of Musicians. She holds a Master of Arts from New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study and a Bachelor of Music from the University of Arizona.
