Biography

Conductor

Michael serves as the Principal Conductor of the All Souls Orchestra, a renowned Christian orchestra based at All Souls, Langham Place in central London. Michael, in partnership with Conductor Emeritus Noël Tredinnick, takes the orchestra on tours around the UK and further afield. He conducts the annual Prom Praise concert at the Royal Albert Hall and in 2023 conducted The Coronation Prom at the same venue, to celebrate the crowning of HM The King. In 2022, he conducted music for the Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Advent Reception in 10 Downing Street. He studied conducting with Gregory Rose at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, as well as receiving private tuition from Ben Palmer (BBC Concert Orchestra).

Composer

Michael is a composer, arranger, and orchestrator writing in an eclectic range of styles.  Michael’s contemporary-classical music is strongly influenced by jazz harmony and strong motivic development.  He has had works performed by Liam Byrne (Fretwork), Spirituoso, soprano Juliet Fraser, Lontano, Juice, the Burney Players, and the Old Royal Naval College Chapel Choir.  His compositions have been performed in Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, and across the UK.

He also enjoys writing for film and media, with one of the most recent projects he worked on being shown at the Edinburgh Short Film Festival. He is currently scoring the soundtrack for a film about John Newton’s hymn ‘Amazing Grace’, starring John Rhys-Davies (Indiana Jones and The Lord of the Rings).

Michael studied composition with Errollyn Wallen, Deirdre Gribbin, Stephen Montague, Robert Keeley, Joseph Phibbs, and Paul Bartholomew.  He studied at King’s College London (with piano performance at the Royal Academy of Music), gaining a first-class degree in music, and Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music.

Orchestrator and Arranger

Michael is a prolific orchestrator and arranger, having written for BBC’s Songs of Praise, the All Souls Orchestra, Paul Baloche, Michelle Todd, Graham Kendrick, Martin Smith, Jonathan Veira, the Adoramus Choir and Orchestra and the St Paul’s Cathedral Massed Choir.  His arrangements have been broadcast on television and radio, and several have been released on CDs and DVDs.