| Biography A native of Vancouver, Mike is a freelance clarinetist specializing in new music and improvisation. He holds a B.Mus. from U.B.C. and a M.Mus. from the City University of New York where he studied with clarinet virtuoso and New York Woodwind Quintet member, Charles Neidich. A member of the recently transplanted Ventos Wind Quintet, Mike has also performed with chamber music projects as a member of the Vancouver Miniaturist Ensemble and the Letter Four Quartet, as well as for Vancouver New Music. Mike is on the extra and sub lists for the Kamloops Symphony and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. On Friday nights, you might find him down at the Wolf and Hound as he studies and performs Irish traditional music on bass clarinet, his rogha gléas. | 
