Michael Thurber is an American composer, songwriter, bassist and actor.
18 Facts About Michael Thurber
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Michael Thurber is a co-founder of CDZA, a YouTube music collective that performed at the YouTube Music Awards in 2013.
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Michael Thurber is on the Board of Directors of National Public Radio's From the Top and teaches at New York University's Clive Davis Institute.
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Michael Thurber was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma and grew up in Portage, Indiana.
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Michael Thurber graduated high school from the Interlochen Arts Academy in 2005.
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In 2005, Michael Thurber was accepted into The Juilliard School in New York City.
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Michael Thurber was the first undergraduate to be accepted into both the Classical and Jazz divisions.
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Michael Thurber was a member of Remington, a rock band he founded in 2005 with Ross Mintzer.
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In 2012, Michael Thurber co-founded CDZA with Joe Sabia and Matt McCorkle.
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Michael Thurber later worked with YouTube's event teams as Music Director.
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Michael Thurber wrote the score for Antony and Cleopatra, a co-production between The Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, UK and The Public Theater.
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From 2012 to 2017, Michael Thurber wrote the music for several of The Public Theater's Mobile Shakespeare productions including Pericles, Macbeth, and Twelfth Night.
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Michael Thurber acted in Twelfth Night, performing the role of Antonio.
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In 2016, Michael Thurber wrote and performed his one man musical The Booty Call, which was produced for a month long run at The Barrow Group Theater.
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In 2018, Michael Thurber composed scores for the plays Sugar In Our Wounds at MTC and Eddie and Dave at The Atlantic Theater Company.
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In 2015, Michael Thurber wrote Three Musketeers: A Play for Instruments.
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That same year, Michael Thurber joined the board of NPR's From The Top and composed music for the dance piece "B Sides" choreographed by Tiffany Rea Fisher for Dallas Black Dance.
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Michael Thurber has written commercial scores for Vanity Fair, BBC America and CollegeHumor.