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Billed as “one of Canada’s most audacious new composers” (The Western Front), Michael has worked in a number of contexts spanning from concert music to large-scale theatre productions, collaborating with the Juno nominated Orchid Ensemble, plunderphonics composer John Oswald, and famed author Douglas Coupland. Michael is best known for his pioneering work developing a unique method of speech melody composition based upon the manipulations of pre-recorded text fragments, as well as the use of mixed live and pre-recorded media. His compositions are performed frequently throughout Canada, as well as internationally. In 2003, he was honoured with the Allan Award in Electroacoustic composition, and in 2004, the Simon Fraser University Arts Service Award. Michael holds advanced degrees from Concordia University and Simon Fraser University where his teachers included Barry Truax, David MacIntyre, Owen Underhill, Tim Brady, Kevin Austin and Rosemary Mountain. He recently moved to Toronto to work towards his doctorate in music composition at the University of Toronto under Christos Hatzis. In addition to his work as a composer, Michael is also a writer and editor for Canada’s largest classical music magazine’s La Scena Musicale.