Welcome to my website! This is the place for all things Michael… just kidding. The only thing you’re going to find here is my music (no t-shirts, mugs or autographed pictures). Some of the music here has never been heard before, while other pieces have been performed publicly by myself or my choirs. Like Flaubert (a novelist who was rumored to spend a week writing and revising just one page) I have spent many an hour wracking my brain for “le mot juste” (the right word), or in some cases, the “le note juste” (the right note). I hope that you enjoy the fruits of my efforts.
A number of the songs and all the choral pieces have sheet music. I’m always excited to get feedback on the music, so don’t hesitate to leave a note in the blog or reply sections.
“If your work of art is good, if it is true, it will find its echo and make its place– in six months, in six years, or after you are gone. What is the difference? “
–Gustav Flaubert

Minsang Lang Kitang Iibigin is a popular Filipino love song and theme song of a very famous soap opera in the Philippines, originally sung by Filipino superstars Ariel Rivera and Regine Velasquez. I hope you enjoy my version of the song, which I first performed at my own wedding in 2009! I was inspired...
This song was written and recorded during summer 2011. It is both a Christmas song, and a song for my first child, due in January 2012. The song works on two levels: metaphorically as a Christmas song, and literally as a birth song. Musically, I tried to encapsulate all of my favorite...
This song is one of those rare ones that basically wrote itself in one sitting. It was written in the summer (not Christmas time) on a particularly depressing day after I had received some disappointing news about a choral piece I was trying to publish. I sat down and wrote the song to cheer...
This was my first-ever religious Christmas song, and although it is not based on a specific passage of scripture, in incorporates many themes of other famous carols, and I think communicates the true meaning of Christmas to the listener. The music also reflects the minor-key mode of famous carols...