As a drummer, Michael has toured North America with members of The Decemberists, recorded session work at Fame Studios, and performed in the World Science Festival at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City.

He performs and records internationally with acts such as Jonah Tolchin, playing on his single Thousand Mile Night which has reached over 16.5 million streams on Spotify. Michael is a proud member of the Zildjian and Vic Firth Education Team and endorses Pork Pie Percussion.

While earning his degree in creative writing, he won a number of awards in nonfiction, poetry, and essays, resulting in his work being published in philosophy and poetry anthologies alike. This rewarding educational career culminated in him co-organizing the Dalai Lama's visit to Connecticut in 2012, inspiring the collaborative volume Creativity and Compassion: How They Come Together (Karuna Publications).

A former special education instructor, Michael has lectured in the Montessori M.Ed. program at The Institute for Educational Studies and continues to write on experiences of the natural world. His current research includes a collaboration with the Pari Center for New Learning on an updated reprint of Looking Glass Universe - a book on the emerging science of wholeness.

Michael serves as Artist-in-Residence at New Rochelle High School in New York. His sound design has been featured by Apple, Paramount Studios, VH1, the Cannes Short Film Festival, Nickelodeon Studios, the NewFilmmakers NY Film Festival, San Francisco IndieFest, and the New Haven Arts & Ideas Festival in southern Connecticut, where he is a private percussion instructor.

Co-founder of Ambitious Music, a production company specializing in audio engineering solutions for young artists, Michael sits on the board of the Center for Compassion and Creativity in collaboration with the Albert Schweitzer Institute at Quinnipiac University. He is author of the forthcoming book, The Bug Ceremony: Stories of Childhood Consciousness, and his writing can be found on Substack.