"Your chart was my absolute favorite piece we did over the Holidays...I adore you and your talent."
Kim Nazarian,
New York Voices

Michele is a busy vocal group arranger, with numerous professional and top educational groups performing her work.

Her orchestral arrangements have been performed by regional symphonies around the country. Other instrumental arrangements and compositions have been featured for various television programs and entertainment companies. (See more info below)

Ces't Si Bon


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Group Vocals
 


Vox Polish CD cover  

Numerous vocal groups have performed Michele's arrangements, including:

. Alone Together
. Beachfront Property
. Chanticleer
. Uptown Vocal Quartet
. New York Voices 		. M-Pact
. Phil Mattson and the PM Singers
. Vokal Total (Germany)
. Voice Trek
. Vox Polish (Denmark)
. Sixth Wave

Sound Samples:
Beachfront Property: O Come all Ye Faithful
Vox Polish: He's Asleep
Voice Trek: Mickey's Diner
Phil Mattson and the pm singers: C'est Si Bon

101 Dalmations CD

Other recent vocal group writing includes work for
. CBS TV Movie, "the Patty Duke Show, Revisited"
. Epcott Center's performing vocal group, "American Vibe"

Sound clip from Disney's "101 Dalmations" sing-along CD:
How much is that doggie?

Leading educational vocal groups around the world are performing Michele's arrangements. Here are a few:
. Berklee College of Music
. Voices Iowa
. University of Northern Colorado

University of North Texas: A Child is Born
University of Miami: Born to be Blue
Western Michigan University's "Gold Company:" Ticket to Ride

Michele's arrangements are published with Hal Leonard, U.N.C. Jazz Press, Sound Music Publications, Colla Voce, Heritage Jazz Press and MichMusic.

 

Click here for the MichMusic Store and a complete list of all available Michele arrangements, books and CDs.
 


Orchestral Arranging
 

 
Straight Up 

Michele's orchestral/vocal group arrangments were featured by Beachfront Property and the Buffalo, Long Beach, Cincinatti and Pacific Symphonies in a performance series called, "California Dreamin". You'll find other orchestral arrangements recorded on Beachfront Property's CD, "Straight Up." Also, look for many of Michele's vocal group arrangements on their CDs, "A Beachfront Christmas" and "Beachfront Property".


Sound clip from the CD "Straight Up:" Midnight Sun
Sound clip from the CD "Straight Up:" Angel Eyes




Miscellaneous
 

Writing Music at the Piano Here are a few of the singers who are using Michele's creative small group and/or big band arrangements:

. Madeline Eastman
. Julie Kelly
. Sunny Wilkinson
. Lisanne Lyons
. Rosana Eckert
. Mary Hylan Cain

Sound clip from Rosana Eckert's CD, "At the End of the Day:"
Rock Me To Sleep

Sound clip from Lisanne Lyon's CD, "Right as the Rain:"
Right as the Rain

Sound clips from Lisanne Lyons CD, "Smile:"
Never Can Say Goodbye
The Touch of Your Lips

Sound clips from Mary Hylan Cain's CD, "Mary Christmas:"
(Michele also produced and played piano on this project.)
Angels We Have Heard On High
Some Children See Him



Compositions & Commissions
 


Children's television star Shari Lewis employed Michele to write songs for several episodes of her television show "Charlie Horse Music Pizza" in 1998. For these tunes, Michele both composed the music and wrote the lyrics.

Other compositions include various instrumental jazz tunes. The following song was featured on the CD of "Araca Azul," a band in which Michele was pianist and singer:
Doce de Coco