Michael Robert Smith is an award-winning composer of contemporary concert music. His music has been commissioned and performed across the United States by The Crossing, Chorosynthesis, Mouthscape, the SFCM New Music Ensemble, soprano Winnie Neih, The Glassbrook Vocal Ensemble, Pianist Josh Wilson, Singing City, The Commonwealth Club of California, cellist Nadia Geier, Chorosynthesis, Ensemble for These Times, The Constellation Men’s Ensemble, violinist Sam Weiser, Convoco, and the Mendelssohn Chorus of Philadelphia. Michael received his undergraduate degree from Westminster Choir College and his graduate degree at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. He will be pursuing his DMA in Composition at the Butler School of Music at The University of Texas at Austin starting in the fall of 2024.