Michael has performed recitals in Canada, the United States, and Europe, and worked as an accompanist and chamber musician. He was the only North American semifinalist in the 2004 International Organ Competition in Odense, Denmark, and was recently a semifinalist in the 2006 American Guild of Organists' National Young Artist's Competition in Organ Performance (NYACOP). At Eastman, he has worked as an accompanist for the Eastman-Rochester Chorus and Eastman Repertory Singers and performed as an organist and harpsichordist with the Eastman Collegium Musicum, Eastman School Symphony Orchestra, and for Eastman faculty recitals by Douglas Prosser and Chien-Kwan Lin. He sings with the Christ Church Schola Cantorum in Rochester and previously sang with the University of Western Ontario Singers and the Thames Scholars early music vocal ensemble, national finalists in the 2002 CBC competition for amateur choirs. As a composer, he earned first prize in the 2002 Association of Canadian Choral Conductors' Composition Competition. His work was broadcast on CBC radio and is published by Cypress Choral Music.

Michael has worked as the Music Director of South Presbyterian Church in Rochester since 2002 and teaches secondary organ and harpsichord at Eastman.