Michael Borges

Background: Michael Borges started learning viola at the age of eight and has been composing since his early twenties. Instruments Michael has studied and performed include: viola, violin, sitar, acoustic guitar, piano, keyboard and backing vocals. Genres: Michael writes original music in a variety of styles being careful not to copy any particular artist or band. Genres include: Contempoary Classical, Romantic, Classic Jazz, Smooth Jazz, Pop, Symphonic, Film Music, World and New Age. Influences:

Michael Borges started learning viola at the age of eight and has been composing since his early twenties. Instruments Michael has studied and performed include: viola, violin, sitar, acoustic guitar, piano, keyboard and backing vocals.

Genres:
Michael writes original music in a variety of styles being careful not to copy any particular artist or band. Genres include: Contempoary Classical, Romantic, Classic Jazz, Smooth Jazz, Pop, Symphonic, Film Music, World and New Age.

Influences:
Handel, Vivaldi, Yanni, Andrew Tretick, Andre Rieu, Joshua Bell, Jean-Luc Ponty, Samuel Barber, Stephan Grappelli, Venessa-Mae and John Williams.

Originality:
Michael tries to make each song as original sounding as possible using his favorite instruments which include: violin, guitar, keyboard, vocals and various Midi controlled samples to help orchestrate a variety of unique compositions.

Recording & Production:
Since 2001 Michael has been expanding his musical ventures by building his own fully-equipped private recording studio. This has enabled Michael to write, record and mix broadcast quality productions for various collaborations, demos and commercially released music licensing projects.

Networking & Publishing:
Currently Michael is enjoying his involvment with the 'Just Plain Folks' and 'Muse's Muse' music organizations as well as developing and managing his own independent music publishing and licensing service.

Success Stories:
One of Michael's songs, "New Every Morning", was featured in a full-length independent film, Anokha, in summer of 2005. This song, and many more, are now being added to Michael's AMsystem Music catalog for promotion and licensing to the music, advertising and media broadcasting industries.

Contests & Reviews:
Over the last several years, a number of Michael's songs and compositions have recieved outstanding reviews and honorary awards from song contests like: Unisong, The Great American Song Contest and Muse's Muse songwriter's contests. Please also visit the "Reviews" page for a sample listing of Broadjam reviews. Thanks!