Music Composition
Michael is available to compose and produce soundtracks for films, shorts, television, or advertisements.
He recently completed the Composing and Orchestrating for Film and TV certificate program at the Berklee School of Music in Boston (online).
In terms of rock and pop compositions, Michael’s most recent release “A Walk in the Forest” is dedicated to his daughter, and features Adam Blankman and Rose Armin-Hoiland (vocals), Robbie Dunbar (guitar), Scott Urquhart (bass), and Jasper Gill (drums). Michael’s “Blues for Lazarus” CD features original compositions based on favorite science fiction and fantasy stories, and features Bay Area and Los Angeles performers including Tom Valdez, Dave Weckl, Dave Koz, Dan Petruzzella, Rick Ellis, Gary Meek, Rob Fordyce, Michael Oliver, Glenn Harris, and Brad McKeague.
In addition, Michael is a composer of Jewish music, a founding member of the Max Helfman Institute for New Jewish music. He has composed pieces for synagogue liturgy, as well as compositions featured in concert settings.
Selected Works
Instrumental Pieces:
Ending sequence from "Spring."
Music by Michael Gill [for Berklee School of Music composition assignment (November, 2023)]. "Spring" was written and directed by Andreas Goralczyk and produced by Ton Roosendaal and Francesco Siddi. "Spring" is a Blender Studio film released in 2019 under the Creative Commons 4.0 license.
Vocal Pieces:
David’s Lament for Saul and Jonathan © 2017
Soundtrack Composition
Much of the Berklee coursework entailed writing music for deleted scenes from commercial motion pictures or television shows and, as such, is copyright-protected and cannot be posted here. Here (below) are a few examples from productions without those copyright restrictions. (All of Michael’s original music on this website is copyright-protected and administered by ASCAP. MAXJAS Music, Publishing.)
