He has collaborated with the Marin Alsop, the Telegraph Quartet, the San Francisco Conservatory Orchestra, and soprano Erin O’Meally. In 2016, Michael was commissioned by the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, in partnership with John Adams and Deborah O’Grady’s Pacific Harmony Foundation, to write a new orchestral work called “Spinning Music,” which was premiered on August 6th, 2016 by the Festival Orchestra and Marin Alsop. The work was later described as “a brilliant, rapid fire stretch of perpetual motion,” by classical music critic Joshua Kosman. Upcoming projects include a full-length string quartet being written for the Apple Hill String Quartet and a new work commissioned by the Siroko Flute Duo.