Mike Crain
Mike is an award winning composer and percussionist living in Northern California. He has written for strings, percussion, piano, brass, chamber ensembles, and full orchestra. Mike has also played with some of the most prestigious performing ensembles and musicians in the US.
Mike specializes and enjoys composing for and performing on a variety of instruments. In addition to performing and composing, Mike is an instructor to individuals, groups and classes. For more info, check out the menus above and/or below.
Specializations: Electro-Acoustic Music & World Music
Instruments: Vibraphone, Marimba, Hand Drums, Metal objects like brake drums, fence posts, thin metal sheets, thick metal plates, spring coils, cymbals, flex-atone, saw, pipes, Noah Bells, Tibetan Gongs, Tam-Tams, Chinese Opera Gongs; flower pots, maracas, berimbau, tabla, bodhran, riqq, djembe, doumbek, darabouka, tambourine, and a MacBook Pro with REASON, LIVE, MAX/MSP, LOGIC and/or others.
