Really Inventive Stuff, Co-Founder, Actor

In 2004, Michael co-founded Really Inventive Stuff.  In 2004, he also made his solo orchestra debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra.

In addition, Michael is co-creator and host of Taphotopia.com.  A new YouTube series that visits cemeteries, meets fascinating previously-living people, and shares great stories one grave at a time.

For the 24-25 season, he makes his debut with the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra (Toy Symphony, Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra), Dubuque Symphony Orchestra (Peter and the Wolf, Toy Symphony), Omaha Symphony (Tubby the Tuba, Toy Symphony), Winston-Salem Symphony (Peter and the Wolf, Toy Symphony), Williamsburg Symphony Orchestra (Peter and the Wolf, Toy Symphony), and the Colorado College Summer Music Festival (Green Eggs and Ham, Toy Symphony). He returns to the Singapore Symphony Orchestra (Peter and the Wolf, Toy Symphony), Philadelphia Orchestra (Peter and the Wolf), and the Kansas City Symphony (Tubby the Tuba, Toy Symphony). More dates for the 2025 season to be announced soon.

As a member of Really Inventive Stuff, he has performed family concerts with orchestras internationally (Singapore), in England (Airedale), in Canada (Regina, Victoria and Winnipeg), and around the United States (Annapolis, Allentown, Charlotte, Delaware, Des Moines, Detroit, Harrisburg, Hartford, Illinois, Indianapolis, Jacksonville, Kansas City, Kennett, Lincoln, Milwaukee, Missoula, the National Symphony, New Haven, Newark, Philadelphia, Portland, Princeton, Richardson, Richmond, Saint Louis, Santa Rosa, Symphony in C, Symphony of Southeast Texas, Texarkana, Tulane University, Utah, and the Westchester Philharmonic).

Michael's many orchestra performances also include Beyond the Score presentations with the Philadelphia Orchestra (Beethoven 5, Bartok’s The Miraculous Mandarin, Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, and Prokofiev 5), the National Symphony Orchestra (Shostakovich 4) and the Des Moines Symphony Orchestra (Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, Tchaikovsky 5 and Beethoven 5).

He studied Theatre at the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls.  He is also a graduate of the Professional Theatre Training Program (PTTP) at the University of Delaware.