ABOUT

Based in Los Angeles, Michael Turnblom is a composer, writer, singer, conductor, and music producer. Whether he is writing for film, the stage, or the concert hall, audiences have praised his music for its melodiousness and emotional allure.

Michael’s new musical about immigration in the United States, The Dividing Line, is in development. A new podcast musical co-written with his witty late co-writer BK Wells, Buzzed, is currently in production. Wells’ and Michael’s “Macbeth in a Starbucks” comedy, Brewed Ambition, received 2nd Prize in the 2023 NMI Search for New Musicals, and their new musical for children, The Little Red Hen, saw its first excerpts performed this summer at the Musical Writers Festival in Dallas.

Michael was the composer for several shows recently produced at the Broadwater Main Stage in Los Angeles: Mona 1.0 (2024), co-written by Veronica Driscoll and Joseph Gregorio, Habitual Mirrors (2023), co-written by Elena C. Lockleis, Stephanie Bentley, and Tatiana Gomez, and For Richer and for Poorer (2021), co-written by Kim Bixler and Greg Beattie. In addition, Michael is the composer for a musical in development by book writer and lyricist Abel Alvarado, Beso, which saw workshop performances in 2024 at the Renberg Theatre in Los Angeles and at the Domino in New Orleans as part of the Tennessee Williams and New Orleans Literary Festival.

As a singer, Michael has enjoyed success as a cross-genre baritone. He has sung with choirs and a cappella groups such as True Concord, the National Philharmonic Chorale, De Angeles Vocal Ensemble, and the Christ Cathedral Schola, with whom he is a bilingual cantor and where he has written various choral works for the acclaimed Hazel Wright organ. His oratorio The Atonement won the Deseret Dramatic Arts Award in 2012.

Fluent in several languages, Michael is passionate about building cultural bridges through the arts. He enjoys working for and with Spanish-speaking communities in the greater Los Angeles area, and as a performing arts teacher he loves helping children tap into the power of music and expression.