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Michael Collins

Michael Collins, pianist and award-winning composer, is a graduate of the Thornton School of Music at USC, where he studied with jazz masters Shelly Berg, Russ Ferrante, and Kim Richmond. Originally from Phoenix, Arizona, Michael studied in his own back yard with jazz legend Armand Boatman at the "Granada Conservatory" (Armand's living room on Granada Street). Michael's piano playing and arranging is modern yet deeply rooted in the jazz tradition. His big band composition "Sketch Artist" was awarded honorable mention in the ASCAP Young Jazz Composer Awards, and his big band arrangement of "El Sur" was featured on "40 Acres and a Burro," a GRAMMY-nominee for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album

West Side Story

By Michael Collins

Label: It'll Be Fine
Released: 2024
Track listing: Something's Coming;Maria;One Hand, One Heart;America;I Feel Pretty;Tonight;Gee, Officer Krupke;Jet Song;I Have A Love;Jump;Somewhere;A Boy Like That;Cool

Works for Clarinet and Orchestra

By Swedish Chamber Orchestra

Label: Chandos Records
Released: 2013
Track listing: Mozart: Clarinet Concerto, KV 622 in A Major; Copland: Concerto for Clarinet and String Orchestra, with Harp and Piano; Kats-Chernin: Ornamental Air for Basset Horn and Orchestra.

Swedish Chamber Orchestra / Michael Collins: Works for Clarinet and Orchestra

by C. Michael Bailey
March 2, 2013

English clarinetist Michael Collins is no stranger to Mozart's lone clarinet concerto, having provided Gramophone Magazine its critical selection of the same for several years in Clarinet Concertos: Mozart--Beethoven (Deutsche Grammophon, 2000), with Mikhail Pletnev and the Russian National Orchestra (since unseated by equally fine performance on the 2010 Hyperion release from Thea King and the ...