Biography

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Chances are, you may have already heard Michelangelo Sosnowitz's music in the form of commercial music or background score.

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National commercials you may have unknowingly heard include Mercedes Benz, Phillips Norelco, Bare Minerals, Animal Planet, Garnier Fructis, Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Chiller Network, SK Energy Drink, CNBC, Acuvue and many more, including several commercials for NYU Langone Hospital and Winthrop University Hospital (that ran constantly on local tri-state channels). 

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Feature film scores include the Dan Fogler directorial debut Hysterical Psycho (a great Halloween time film), the Deborah Kampmeier films SPLiT and Tape, the Allie Dvorin film A Novel Romance (winner of the New York International Film Festival), the Deborah Twiss Films Sapiosexual and Taboo, the Julia Verdin films The Lost Girls and Maya (Award Winner at the Socially Relevant Film Festival in NYC)(both films worth watching for socially relevant eye opening true events), and the Steve Feder film A Brooklyn Love Story. Michelangelo wrote the teaser music to HBO's Generation Kill and the opening theme music to The History Channel show Battles BC. He was the composer for the award winning Colin Quinn comedy series Cop Show (YouTube), the drama series Crazytown (Prime), and provided music for several TV shows including The Late Show with James Corden and CBS This Morning.

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Michelangelo created logo themes and background music for Deadline Hollywood, ENTV, PMC Studios, BlackTree Media, Hollywood Life and BGR. He wrote music for CONCACAF (the North American and Carribean division of FIFA World Cup Soccer) creating their Champion's League Theme and Gold Cup theme, as well as many stingers and promos.

 

Michelangelo has also written music for Off-Off Broadway Theater (where he began his career) and Off-Broadway Theater including two Original Off-Broadway Musicals (Crazy Head Space and Love in the Middle Ages) and an Original Ballet (Petrouchka) performed at The Duke Theater on 42nd Street. He has won awards for original music in film and theater including two Best Score awards at the First Run Film Festival and Best Score at the Midtown International Theater Festival.

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Michelangelo has also spent much of his life as a recording artist, writing and producing albums and songs for several select artists across different styles of music. He has placed songs high on the CMJ charts as well as Satellite, FM and major streaming platforms. Many of his and his artists' tracks have been licensed for, or written for, film and television as well as commercials and online media. 

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Michelangelo (Mike) grew up in Westport, CT and began with piano lessons at the age of 5. As a child, his world became music and the piano and at thirteen he won the Project Mozart Award for Young Composers. As a teenager his world expanded to keyboards and recording and prolific teenage songwriting habits. His first published music happened as a high school student for a PBS special called 'Oysters in the Long Island Sound', and in his Junior year, he won the Connecticut Songwriting Competition.

 

Michelangelo would go on to NYU's Tisch School of the Arts where he fell in love with film and theater scoring. He wrote music for numerous plays performed at the Stella Adler Conservatory (often performing live alongside the actors) as well as student films from NYU's Tisch Film School. He studied film scoring with Ron Sadoff, (and got to take a master class with Alan Menken!) 

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