"Enlightening his audience with both examples and his research findings,
Michael ensured all who attended were brilliantly informed"                       more info



10.12.08   Performance at the 2008 MegaHz Noise Festival
The two day festival, organized by the HzCollective, was dedicated to promoting experimental and improvised music



7.14-19.08   Instructor at the Penn State Summer Music Camp
The week included coachings for the wind ensemble and orchestra percussion sections as well as a cymbal clinic and a short course on the Science of Music



8.15.08    Invited review article "Seeing Music? What musicians need to know about vision" published in Empirical Musicology Review



3.3.07   Guest soloist for David Long's Concerto for Marimba with the Longwood Wind Ensemble to celebrate the donation of a new 5.0 octave Malletch marimba



4.11.07   Clinic at Project:Percussion featured in the Richmond Times-Dispatch                Read the article



12.16.08   Research highlighted by Dr. John Hain in "Drumming up Research" (December 2008 issue of Percussive Notes)



4.25.06   Guest soloist for the University of Virginia's first ever "Night of Percussion" Read the press release



5.15.07   Appointed Chair of the Percussive Arts Society Music Technology Committee



3.3.07   Guest lecture at Goucher College, co-sponsored by the Music and Psychology Departments.   Read the news story



4.27.07   Guest Conductor/soloist at Penn State University (State College, Pennsylvania)



2.26.08   Mark Ford visits Longwood University (Farmville, Virginia)
Read the Dynasty event summary



12.25.08    Research section expanded and updated, including topical organization and descriptions of relevant paradigms



11.8.06   World premier of Judith Shatin's Time to Burn at PASIC 2006 (Austin, Texas)



3.30.08   Clinic on Developing Four Mallet Technique at the 2008 Maryland/Delaware Day of Percussion (Baltimore, MD)



3.22.07   Organizer/host for campus visit by world-renowned music cognition researcher David Huron as part of the Simkins Lecture series