Michael Borges Music
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Background
Contests & Reviews
Genres
Influences
Licensing Credits
Networking & Publishing
Recording & Production
Success Stories
Background: [Top]
Michael Borges has been playing music since the age of 8 and composing since his early-mid twenties. Instruments Michael has studied and performed include: viola, violin, sitar, acoustic guitar, piano, keyboard and backing vocals.
Contests & Reviews: [Top]
Over the last several years, a number of Michael's songs and compositions have received outstanding reviews and honorary awards from song contests like: Unisong, The Great American Song Contest and Muse's Muse songwriter's contests. Please also visit the "Reviews" page for a sample listing of various reviews.
Genres: [Top]
Michael writes original music in a variety of styles being careful not to copy any particular artist or band. Genres include: Contemporary Classical, Romantic, Classic Jazz, Smooth Jazz, Pop, Soft Rock, Symphonic, Film Music, World and New Age.
Influences: [Top]
Handel, Vivaldi, Claude Debussy, Yanni, Andrew Tretick, Andre Rieu, Joshua Bell, Jean-Luc Ponty, Samuel Barber, Stephan Grappelli and John Williams.
Licensing Credits: [Top]
Over the years AMsystem Music has provided tracks for the following types of commercially licensed music: advertising, radio broadcasts, film festivals, video games, commercial production embedded uses, motion pictures, backing (performance) tracks, software products, production music CDs, DVD video productions, slide show synchronization, mobile phone ring tones, podcasts and more.
Networking and Publishing: [Top]
Currently Michael is enjoying his involvement with the 'Just Plain Folks' and 'Muse's Muse' music organizations as well as developing and managing his own independent music publishing and licensing service.
Recording & Production: [Top]
Since 2001 Michael has been expanding his music production ventures by building his own fully-equipped private recording studio. This has enabled Michael to write, record and mix broadcast quality productions for various collaborations, projects and a commercially released music licensing catalog.
Success Stories: [Top]
One of Michael's songs, "New Every Morning", was featured in a full-length independent film, Anokha, in summer of 2005. This song and many more have since been added to Michael's AMsystem Music catalog for promotion and licensing to the music, advertising and media broadcasting industries.