Kevin Michael
Kevin Michael is a multi-instrumentalist/composer/performer, an alumnus of the Berklee College of Music and a credited music instructor at the college level.
Award winning Celtic CD 'Kevin Michael - Coming Home' released in 2004 on Statue Records, Los Angeles.
Kevin's newest CD project 'Spiritu Aeternum' is in the works and will be in stores mid 2006.
Kevin has spent years on the tour circuit with various musical groups and has played numerous international shows. He has also produced/engineered recording projects for other artists.
Kevin's recently completed written works include: 12 Chakras and 72 Melakartas of Indian Carnatic Music for Guitar, Modal Madness In The Quartal Portal (a study of modal improvisation as applied to quartal harmonic structures) Tempus Continuum (a study demonstrating the application and counting of poly-rhythmic structures in music using only superimposed incremental subdivisions of a circle), and musical transcriptions of compositions by artists as diverse as Paganini, Bach, Chet Atkins, Miles Davis, and the Mahavishnu Orchestra.
In September 2004, Kevin transcribed the official dual format scores of the legendary John McLaughlin's 3 DVD master class on jazz improvisation 'This Is The Way I Do It'. Excerpts of the scores were published in Guitar Player magazine. The complete scores for all 12 Chapters can be downloaded at www.johnmclaughlin.com