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composerbiography: MichaelSchachter

Michael Schachter is a composer for stage and concert hall, pianist, and scholar. In recent years, Michael’s music has been commissioned and performed by ensembles such as the Minnesota Orchestra, the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra, the Boise Philharmonic, the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra, the Naples Philharmonic Orchestra, the Bloomington Symphony, Alarm Will Sound, the 21st Century Consort, the Brentano Quartet, the Rolston Quartet, the Concord Chorus and Orchestra, the Masterworks Chorale and Orchestra, the Vocal Essence Ensemble Singers, the New York Virtuoso Singers, the Bloomington Symphony, and chamber groups and collegiate ensembles around the country, at venues including Carnegie Hall, Merkin Hall, the Smithsonian Institute, the San Francisco Center for New Music, Hill Auditorium (Ann Arbor), Sanders Theatre (Cambridge), National Sawdust and Roulette (Brooklyn), the Big Ears Festival, the Rockport Chamber Music Festival, San Diego Symphony’s “Hearing the Future” Festival, and the Ojai Festival for Contemporary Music. His works have received honors from organizations such as BMI, ASCAP, and the American Composers Forum.

Michael and his family are based in Cambridge, MA, where Michael is embarking on a Junior Fellowship at the Harvard Society of Fellows. Outside of his musical work, Michael can be found reading, watching good-bad action movies, and horsing around with his two young sons. He is an unapologetic fan of Boston sports.