A fierce advocate of contemporary music, Mike balances his time working as a recording/mix engineer, composer, and educator.
His recording and mixing work is focused on contemporary classical music and can be heard on labels such as Furious Artisans, Albany, Equilibrium, New Focus, Red Piano Records, and MSR Classics featuring collaborative partners including Vic Firth/Zildjian, icarus Quartet, Quince Ensemble, Hypercube, Unheard-of//Ensemble, Bowling Green Philharmonia, Dan Piccolo, Yevgeny Yontov, Solungga Liu, Cole Burger, and many others. He believes deeply in the capacity of the production approach to accentuate the conceptual framework of a musical composition or interpretation.
Praised for its “intricate structure” (The Wall Street Journal), Michael Laurello’s compositional work reflects his fascination with temporal dissonance and emotional immediacy. It has been presented at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, MATA, PASIC, Bang on a Can Summer Festival, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, Carlsbad Music Festival, Music from Angel Fire, North American Saxophone Alliance, National Conference of the Society of Composers, Inc., and other venues and festivals. His music has been featured by ensembles such as icarus Quartet, Bluecoats, "The President's Own" United States Marine Band, The United States Army Band "Pershing's Own," Nashville Symphony, Sō Percussion, HOCKET, Grand Valley State University New Music Ensemble, Yale Percussion Group, and Ensemble Repercussion featuring the Duisburger Philharmoniker and Deutschen Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz.
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Yale School of Music (A.D. Composition), Tufts University (M.A. Music), Berklee College of Music (B.M. Music Synthesis)
