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 The Dividing Line analyzes themes of division, unity, and immigration. His new podcast musical Buzzed, co-written with BK Wells, received 1st Prize in NMI’s 2025 International Search for New Musicals and is currently in production. Their “Macbeth in a Starbucks” musical comedy, Brewed Ambition, will see its first developmental stage production this summer with Lawrence Opera Theatre in Kansas, and their new musical for children, The Little Red Hen, saw excerpts performed at last year’s 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 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 had various choral works performed with the acclaimed Hazel Wright organ. His passion 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 with and for various Spanish-speaking communities in the greater Los Angeles area, and he also loves helping young performing arts students at St. Timothy School tap into their confidence and power of expression.