Michael C. Standard

Michael C. Standard is a composer, arranger, and percussionist based in Chattanooga, TN. His compositions for solo performers, chamber groups, and scholastic ensembles engage with a wide breadth of styles and concepts, and his work has been featured throughout the United States, as well as internationally in Canada, China, and Malaysia. Michael’s work as a composer and performer can be heard on Naxos, Ravello, and Innova Records, and his performance on David Liptak's CD Constellations alongside Eunmi Ko was lauded by Fanfare magazine. Michael’s wind ensemble work, ‘Five Frames for Redemption’ was selected for the Young Composer Mentor Project, where his music was performed by the United States Air Force Band in a livestream sponsored by the National Band Association. Michael's music has been presented at many unique events and conferences, including the Indianapolis 500, the Mostly Modern Festival, the Research on Contemporary Composition (ROCC) conference, the NEO Voice Festival, and the Electroacoustic Barn Dance at Jacksonville University. He has also received grants from the Gobioff Foundation, the Arts Council of Hillsborough County (Tampa, FL) and Art on the Beltline (Atlanta, GA) to support his work. Mentors in composition include Baljinder Sekhon, Paul Reller, Robert Scott Thompson, and Nickitas Demos.

As a co-founder of Homegrown New Music Ensemble, Michael works closely with artists and choreographers to create new work, and these collaborative works have been featured at institutions such as the University of North Georgia, Louisiana State University, Tampa Museum of Art, and the Dade City Cultural and Heritage Museum. He has also performed in concert in his native Georgia, Florida, in New York at the Mostly Modern Festival, the Sō Percussion Summer Institute at Princeton University, and internationally in Austria. His mentors in performance include Robert McCormick, Stuart Gerber, Charles Settle, and Matt Ward.

Michael serves on the faculty of the Studio at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga where he teaches workshops in digital creative software.