Michael  brings to the Glamaphones music team a wealth of experience as a music director, composer and teacher. With an extensive background in community musical theatre, Michael has spent many years conducting pit bands and singers in shows such as Legally Blonde: The Musical, Chess, Spamalot and Bright Star as well as an array of musical revues. He frequently collaborates with The Wellington Footlights Society, a troupe he co-founded eleven years ago, and has gained a reputation for arranging and conducting challenging a cappella versions of musical hits. As a composer his work is also focused on the stage, and often sees him collaborating with playwright Cassandra Tse and Red Scare Theatre.

Offstage, Michael currently teaches singing, composition and classroom music in four schools in the Hutt Valley, as well as conducting their various choirs at both school events and The Big Sing. He completed his undergraduate studies in music at the University of Exeter, then a Masters in Music at the University of York (both in the UK), before emigrating to Aotearoa in 2012. Locally he has sung with Orpheus Choir of Wellington, played clarinet with Wellington City Concert Band and more recently sung bass with the vocal quartet, Quadraphonic.