Along with creating music and performing live with his group, the AS-IS Ensemble, Michael has toured and or recorded with Amos Lee,
Art Garfunkel, Howie Day, Wheatus, Jump Little Children, Brooklyn Qawwali Party, Teddy Geiger, Phillip Hamilton, Euro pop superstar Giorgia and
Jay Clifford's Rosebud. His national TV appearances include Late Night with David Letterman, the Tonight Show with Jay Leno, the Ellen Degeneres Show, TRL, Good Morning America, Regis and Kelly and the CBS Morning Show.
Michael is the founder, composer and keyboardist of the AS-IS Ensemble, which along with being the former house band at the world-famous Blue Note jazz club in New York City has opened for John Scofield, Tea Leaf Green, Medeski Martin Wood and JFJO and has performed at such venues as Avery Fischer Hall at Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, SXSW 2010, and the Bell Atlantic JVC and New York Winter Jazz Festivals. In a review of their first ever concert held in New York, they were touted "GENERATION NEXT," His recordings with the AS-IS Ensemble include: "Turned On Turned Up," (LEFT3/MRI/RED) "Like It Is" (Left3) and REACT! (Athena Jazz).
