Michael is a DC metro based multi-instrumentalist  and  serves as  Executive Producer for music centric films. His musical experience includes piano, keyboards, guitar, dobro and mandolin. He is a member of the Virginia based group The Jazz Infuzion, www.jazzinfuzion.com. He grew up in McLean, Virginia and was introduced to music around age six. Michael started playing jazz guitar in eighth grade and studied jazz under George Horan’s Jazz Lab at Langley High School for four years. He attended college at Virginia Tech playing jazz piano and guitar. Hit the DC 1980's music scene with local bands doing mostly Top 40, standards, dance and Motown. 

Ongoing musical experience includes keyboardist for The Jazz Infuzion, contemporary Christian music through local churches, backing singer/songwriters and doing solo guitar gigs. Personal musical emphasis is on standard and contemporary jazz, finger-style acoustic guitar, and occasional dobro and mandolin as the need arises.  

His film experience includes current work on A Quiet Revolution - The Story of Windham Hill Records, (www.aquietrevolutionfilm.com); Cosmic Echo - a documentary on Lonnie Liston Smith; and ongoing support for the film and album Sing Me A Brand New Song - the life and music of Coleman Mellett (www.colemanmellett.com). 

Michael's musical walk has been influenced by many –Chic Correa, Stevie Wonder, Happy the Man, Return to Forever, Gregg Karukas, Tim Eyerman, Jeff Lorber, Herbie Hancock, Coleman Mellett, Joni Mitchell, Michael Hedges, Andy McKee, Will Ackerman, Neil Larsen, Seldom Scene, Kelly Joe Phelps, Brian Auger and locally by Scott Martin, Michael Manring, Peter Princiotto, Paul Piper, and so many from the Washington, DC area. 

Contact me at michael@michaelquinn-music.com or blueridge81@me.com