NEWS/ EVENTS
Click hereto read an article from TIME magazine detailing a project with the Cleveland Clinic that I composed music for.
Click Here to watch a video collage of 2008's Pandemonium at the Cleveland Public Theater. There is a short clip ofFiveOneperforming my piece, Scenes from the Wild Party (scroll to the bottom of the page to view the imbed).
Click Here to watch the segment of WVIZ's Applause which details my commision with the Cleveland Museum of Natural History
Click Here to listen to an interview I did on WCLV's Around Noon with Dee Perry.
February 2009- Music and the Brain Project, original electronic music by Michael Bratt and four other CIM students written for the Cleveland Clinic.
March 2009- Premiere of Multimode Filter'sdance piece Control, with original choregraphy by Dancing Wheel's Carly Dorman and Sarah Lawrence.
September 2009- Cleveland's Premeire New Music Ensemble, FiveOne, performs at the Cleveland Public Theater's Pandemonium 2009.
December 2009- Finishing Untitled Piece for the Chialde Quintet.
January 2010- Premiere of Unconscious Intelligence by the CIM Orchestra.
February 2010- Premiere of Headlines for FiveOne, in participation with the Cleveland Public Theater's 2010 Big[BOX] Concert series Extra!, Extra!, with original choregraphy by Dancing Wheel'sCarly Dorman and Sarah Lawrence.
Spring 2010- Commissioned violin piece for Elizabeth Phelps.
Thanks for taking the time to visit my site. Here you will find a collection of items that catalogue my career as a composer including music, film clips, and all the latest news of projects that I am currently involved in. Just click on the toolbar at the top of the page.
Enjoy,
Michael Bratt
Michael Bratt (b. 1979) is a Cleveland based composer. Having attended Kent State University, Berklee College of Music, and Cleveland State University (BM, MM), he has an extensive background in modern music. He has studied with many award-winning composers such as Keith Fitch, Margaret Brouwer, Paul Schoenfield, Andrew Rindfleisch, and Greg DAlessio. He has also taken master classes with Pulitzer Prize winning composers Bernard Rands, Michael Colgrass, Melinda Wagner and the late Donald Martino.
His work is diverse, having written for orchestra, chamber groups, solo instruments, and electronic media. His music has been premiered throughout the United States and internationally in cities such as Stockholm and Vienna among others. Nationally recognized groups such as the Verdehr Trio, Cleveland Chamber Symphony, Zeitgeist, and the Bugallo-Williams Piano Duo have premiered his compositions. His music has also been featured on Public Radios' Around Noon with Dee Perry as well as WVIZs' television show, Applause.
Michael has received numerous honors including Composer/Fellow for the Canton Symphony Orchestra 2008-2009, regional finalist for the 2008 SCI Student Composer Commission, 2007 Verdehr Trio Composition Contest, honorable mention at the 2007 Minnesota Orchestra Institute, and the 2005 Bain Murray Composition Award among others.
An immense advocate and supporter of modern music, Mr. Bratt is the co-founder and board president of FiveOne, a Cleveland based new music ensemble. Mr. Bratt has also teamed up with award winning composers Mark Nowakowski and Jeremy Allen , in founding Multimode Filter, an electronic composer ensemble dedicated to producing cutting edge electronic music and sound design for concert halls, audio books, video games and film.
His film music can be heard in the independent movies All That You Love Will Be Carried Away and Guys (the former was shown in the 2005 Montreal World Film Festival and the latter won best in show at the 2005 Ohio Indie gathering)
Currently, Mr. Bratt is finishing his DMA at the Cleveland Institute of Music.
FiveOne perfoming my piece, Scenes from the Wild Party
FiveOne rehearsing Jeremy Allen's, Thank You Mr. Morricone
After the very first FiveOne concert
Jeremy Allen, Mark Nowakowski, and Myself
just click on the speaker to activate the piece
Chamber Music Orchestral Works Electro/Acoustic Works
Ride Live and in Color Cosmos
written for FiveOne commisioned by the commisioned by the
Canton Symphony Cleveland Museum of
The Kübler-Ross Model Natural History
for string quartet Unconscious Intelligence
I. Anger for string orchestra and percussion Akademische Probe
II. Denial for solo tuba and
III. Bargaining Crystalline electronics
IV. Depression for full orchestra
V. Acceptance St. Anthony's Fire
for solo viola with
Scenes from The Wild Party real-time processing
III. The Party Begins
IV. First Dance
Music and Sound Design by Michael Bratt
All clips shown are purely for demonstration purposes
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