Michael J McEvoy

Michael is an eclectic & versatile multi-instrumentalist, Emmy award-winning, Ivor Novello nominated composer, songwriter, & producer. He has an extensive list of film, television, & popular music credits. Throughout the 1980s/90s he worked as a co-writer, producer, and/or session musician with a long list of popular UK music artists including Rebop Kwaku Baah, Ian Dury, Scritti Politti, Orange Juice, Soul II Soul, Mark Morrison, Steve Winwood/Traffic, Curiosity Killed the Cat, the James Taylor Quartet, & Lalomie Washburn. In the early 2000s he focused his creative energies on composing for film & TV composition, including scores for Richard Loncraine’s ‘Finding Your Feet’ starring Timothy Spall & Imelda Staunton and Richard Linklater’s ‘Me & Orson Welles’ starring Zac Efron and Clare Danes. Television work includes the Peabody Award-winning BBC/PBS documentary, ‘The Jazz Ambassadors’ with director Hugo Berkeley, the ITV/Masterpiece Theatre miniseries ‘Dark Angel’ with Joanne Froggatt, the landmark series for NatGeo, ‘Alien Deep’, ‘Einstein’s Big Idea’ (PBS/Nova) & ‘Battle of the Hood and Bismarck’ with director Gary Johnstone. Michael has written and produced three solo jazz albums, and in 2018 his composition for jazz trio, ‘Mother Medusae’, featuring violinist, Thomas Gould, was nominated for an Ivor Novello Composer Award. In 2025 he released the first of two new neoclassical compositions featuring cellist Jane Fenton ‘Mirror of a Soul Yearning’.