About
Michael Fausett is a composer, producer, and arranger based in Los Angeles. His music is touched by a youthful dynamism and a tender attention to feeling and setting. Both his film and concert compositions have won multiple awards and are performed by professional ensembles across the world.
Growing up in the desert, Fausett spent his childhood surrounded by the hidden music of cool monsoon winds, choruses of bullfrogs; the distant chatter of coyotes and cavernous canyon echoes. At a young age he fell in love with the music of his father – folk of the 60s and 70s – in addition to the great Classical composers, especially Bach and Ravel. After studying piano, composition, and orchestration at the El Paso Conservatory of Music, he attended BIOLA University, majoring in Composition and Organ Performance. During his college tenure, Fausett developed a penchant for Film Composition, receiving awards and recognitions for his film scores.
Fausett’s music tends to defy generic definition, straddling the Classical, Jazz, and Folk arenas in pursuit of new musical territory. As a result he has acquired an eclectic skillset in the trades of film composition, concert music, arranging, and songwriting. In his body of work, Fausett strives for honesty and excellence, drawing upon the influences of his past while fostering curiosity and imagination for the future of music. Through it all, he has found collaboration to be one of the purest joys, both in music and in life more generally, and desires to serve his own communal function as an artist by applying his own talents and abilities toward the edification of the musical world and the all who come in contact with it.
“Until I die there will be sounds. And they will continue following my death. One need not fear about the future of music.”
John Cage, “The Future of Music” (1937)