MICHAEL J MCEVOY
ABOUT
Michael is an award-winning composer with many film, television and pop music credits to his name, including the score to Richard Loncraine’s feature Finding Your Feet starring Imelda Staunton and Timothy Spall, and the evocative jazz score to Peabody Award-winning BBC/PBS documentary The Jazz Ambassadors. Other credits include Richard Linklater’s Me and Orson Welles starring Zac Efron and Claire Danes and Forget Me Not (Winner of London Independent Film Festival) starring Tobias Menzies.
His music also appears in TV dramas Tuff Money, The Wire, Young Dracula, Dark Angel and many prestigious documentaries including Citizen Bio (co-scored with Paul Oakenfold), BAFTA-winning J’accuse, E=Mc2/Einstein’s Big Idea, Battle of the Hood and Bismarck and the landmark ocean series Alien Deep.
Over his career he has worked as a producer, writer, arranger and performer with artists including Ian Dury, Scritti Politti, Curiosity Killed the Cat, Soul II Soul, James Taylor Quartet, Patrice Rushen, The Bee Gees and Mark Morrison. He also worked closely with Steve Winwood joining Traffic for their 1994 reunion tour.
