keyboardist, composer, arranger, orchestrator, technology consultant, professor, philosopher, come on man, it's LA, everybody here does everything, ya know? we're all doing this-slash-this-slash-this and whatever else fills up the billable hours. That's not a bad thing, it's all part of what we bring when we step up to deliver ... music.
About Me

About Me

My name is Michael Lee. I play keyboards. I also write music, do some arranging, some string orchestrations, I’ve produced a few albums, and I am a technical consultant for Apple’s Logic software. Like everyone else in this town, I do a little of everything. But mostly, I play keyboards....
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Credits

Credits

Credits Include TV & Film Hidalgo (keyboards, vocals on ending credits song) The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (live keyboards) The Late Show with David Letterman (live keyboards) The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborne (live keyboards) The Blockbuster Music Awards (house band, keyboards) The Prism Awards (house band, keyboards)...
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Compositions

Compositions

I write music for choir, orchestra, and electronic instruments. I’ve had the chance to conduct my works for the American Choral Director’s Association, and for the LA Composer’s Workshop. To listen to some recently composed works, click below.
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Audio Demo

Audio Demo

Click below to listen to some of my work. ST AP KP S PK PAO PA PS PSOK PSOK P A: arranging K: keyboards O: orchestration P: piano S: sound design T: technical consultant
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30dropframe

30dropframe

30dropframe is an ongoing project to write film cues for books. Click below to find out more.
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Latest entries
Steve Connell - So Much Silence All This Noise Is

Steve Connell – So Much Silence All This Noise Is

We put this piece together with LA-based poet Steve Connell. I’ve loved his work for years, and it was great to get a chance to collaborate creatively with him, and with Zack Mathers over at Frequent Flyer Productions. I built the sound-design piece for the first half, and the music on the back end was...
Pioneer Electronics Ad: MixTrax Global

Pioneer Electronics Ad: MixTrax Global

Got called in last week to do remix audio on a commercial for the new Pioneer Electronics software MixTrax, and found out from the producer this morning that the commercial was picked up for international markets on 3 continents. Check out the commercial. So much fun to work on this one, and excited to see...
Ignorance Breeds Contempt (or, How I Came To Appreciate Dance Music)

Ignorance Breeds Contempt (or, How I Came To Appreciate Dance Music)

Like all good musicians of the world, I hold dance music in special contempt. I mean, it’s just looping somebody else’s work with filters and drum samples, right? Right. Well, the thing is, it’s easy to dismiss something you don’t know anything about. I should know better – how many times have people assumed that...
Twin Primes Conjecture

Twin Primes Conjecture

I finally received back some audio from the composition I completed for the Robin Cox Ensemble. The piece is built around sets of twin prime number sets. See how many you can find in the score! Twin Primes Conjecture – Score Twin Primes Conjecture
Millionaire Matchmaker

Millionaire Matchmaker

Had a chance to play with some good friends for an on-camera segment on the Bravo Network show, “Millionaire Matchmaker”. Thanks to Rosy Rosenquist, Dana Decker, and Jeff Askew for pulling this one together. The episode aired on August 29th.
O Say Can You See ...

O Say Can You See …

I just finished a commission to write an arrangement of The Star-Spangled Banner for the National Day of Prayer breakfast this next May. The arrangement will be performed by the 100 men of the APU Men’s Chorale, a fantastic group to write for! The demo is rough – it’s all me with the steroid-like assistance...
Rise Up! from Word Music

Rise Up! from Word Music

At the start of this summer, did a recording session for Word Choral Music that ended up being one of the fastest, bestest, just all-around amazing sessions ever. The final tracks are done, and the project is up online. You can hear clips by clicking here.
The Star-Spangled Banner

The Star-Spangled Banner

I’ve been commissioned to write an arrangement of The Star-Spangled Banner for the National Day of Prayer, to be performed by an a capella men’s chorus of about 100 guys. It’s challenging to arrange a piece that’s so well know, to find something new and interesting to do with it, but still maintain the power...
Lobe Den Herren (Praise to The Lord)

Lobe Den Herren (Praise to The Lord)

One of the things I love about leading music at a church is the freedom to bring in great players, then write music specifically for them to perform. This Sunday Joy Song Thomson will be joining me on Cello, so I put together an offertory based on the hymnsong “Lobe Den Herren”, know to most...
Session for Word Publishing

Session for Word Publishing

Had a GREAT recording session today for Word Publishing. They’re publishing a book of choral arrangements for modern rock worship tunes, and releasing stems (submixes) of each instrument for choirs to perform along with. The producer, Dan Semsen, talked them into bringing the session out to Los Angeles, their first time recording out here in...
Ender's Game

Ender’s Game

30dropframe is an ongoing project to take books that have not yet been made into films, and to write cues for the score that might fit the film, if it were ever made. Ender’s Game is the first book in the series. A young boy is separated from his family, and travels through the lonely...
A Little Dancing Music

A Little Dancing Music

Last Friday was a fun day – I was asked to write some original cues for the show Millionaire Matchmaker, and to pull together a jazz quartet to play them live on camera. The episode featured a ballroom dance instructor as the millionaire, and he spent the first part of the evening teaching his date...