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Michael Picton is an award-winning composer writing for film, television, branding, advertising, theatre, and circus.
Michael studied composition, orchestration and piano at McGill University, Montreal, where he earned his Masters Degree in Music Composition. While a student, he was awarded the SOCAN Hugh LeCaine award for electronic music.
Following his university studies, Michael ran away with the circus, joining the European Tour of Cirque du Soleil's Quidam as keyboardist. His circus career continues to this date with original scores and songs for Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey (Bellobration and Funundrum) and Cirque Mechanics (Boom Town) as well as orchestration and production of the music for the Dragone spectacles Le Rêve and The House of Dancing Water.
As the Grand Prize winner of the Turner Classic Movies Young Film Composers Competition, Michael was chosen from a field of over 600 aspiring composers to score the epic 1926 Greta Garbo silent film, The Temptress. A second silent film for TCM followed, The Red Mill, starring Marion Davies. Other film and television work include the independent feature Little Chenier, TV series Flash Gordon and I Want to Work for Diddy, as well as numerous documentaries and short films.
In his long standing collaboration with NYC music house Expansion Team, Michael has scored for a long list of commercial and network clients including Target, Tylenol, Verizon, P&G, Bank of America, NV Energy, HBO, CNN, PBS, Comedy Central, Discovery Channel, Biography Network, A&E, VH1, FX Network, Sprout TV, Versus and Universal Network.
Michael's multinational citizenship (USA, Canada, and the UK) facilitates his involvement in international productions and co-productions.
