Michael graduated from the Cork School with a First Class Honours Masters in Piano and Organ Accompaniment in 2015, and BMus degree in 2013, studying with Eleanor Malone and James Taylor. He has also completed diplomas in piano performance (dipABRSM), piano teaching (DipLCM TD), organ
performance (ALCM) and a Licentiate diploma in vocal and instrumental accompaniment (LLCM). Michael works extensively as an accompanist in the Munster area and has been an official vocal accompanist of the Feis Maitiu since 2014 and of the Féile Luimnigh (Limerick) since 2011.
Michael works extensively as a choral accompanist and proudly held the post of organ scholar at St Mary’s Cathedral, Limerick for five years. This pushed him to study organ at Masters level and performed Langlais’ Messe Solennelle with chamber choir Voci Nuove as his final recital. Since 2017, Michael has been the organist for UCH’s “Limerick Sings” gala concert and is also was the organist for the premiere performance of the winning piece for UL’s Ceremonial Musical Composition Competition in 2019. He also has a keen interest in musical theatre and has played for over eighty theatre productions. He has been the musical director for the Cecilians Musical Society since 2018, with his work on The Producers winning “Best Chorus” and runner up best show at the AIMS awards 2019.
He is a past musical director of the CIT Musical Society, musically directing their award- winning Irish Premieres of Carrie (2015), Bare (2016) (Best Chorus award at AIMS) and Bad Girls (2018). He was thrilled to receive a national AIMS award “Best Musical Director” for his work on Bare in 2016. In 2014 Michael founded his own theatre company, NMT Productions, and has since produced and musically directed the Irish Premieres of When Midnight Strikes (2014), LIFT (2015), Dogfight (2016) and a production of The Last Five Years (2017). Other musical director credits include Cats (Phoenix Productions, Thurles), Man of La Mancha (Cork Arts Theatre/Marion Wyatt), Annie, Oliver, The Wizard of Oz, Jesus Christ Superstar, Jekyll & Hyde (Newcastlewest Musical Society), Crazy For You, Hairspray (Firkin Crane, Cork), Miss Saigon, The Scarlet Pimpernel (Centre stage Youth Theatre), Our House, Back to the 80s, Mamma Mia (Glenstall Abbey, Limerick). He has worked as a repititeur for chamber productions of the operas “Riders to the Sea” by Vaughan-Williams, “The Medium” by Gian Carlo Menotti and “Savitri” by Gustav Holst, as part of the Kilkenny Opera Festival (Mid-West Opera/Owen Gilhooly).
