Mike McMullen has been a professionally working musician for over 30 years. His career as a performer, composer, arranger, and educator has taken him all over North America, Europe, and Scandinavia, and into almost every imaginable musical setting.
He studied clarinet at the NaviBase Music School in Little Creek, Virginia, jazz saxophone with Joe Henderson in San Francisco, and flute at the SF Conservatory with Mong Pil Kim. Mike was awarded a NARAS Scholarship in 1978 to study composition and arranging at the prestigious Dick Grove School in Los Angeles, and he continued studio woodwind and recording studies there with Phil Sobel for seven years.
Mike is a founding member of the Sacramento region's premier jazz group, the Capital Jazz Project. He is currently in his tenth year as director of the UC Davis Jazz Band, is a jazz faculty member at CSUS and ARC, performs summer and winter shows for California Musical Theatre, records commercial projects periodically, and travels back to Europe to work every year. Mike also performs many elementary school programs in the greater Sacramento area and maintains a large private student roster.
Aside from his work as a leader, Mike has performed in concert, toured, or recorded with such artists as Ray Charles, Dave Liebman, Randy Brecker, Bobby Shew, Sonny Fortune, Manhattan Transfer, Dianne Schuur, Doc Severinsen, Natalie Cole, Pepper Adams and Kenny Wheeler.
Commercially, he has worked as an arranger, conductor or performer with Radio Orchestras in Ireland, Denmark and Belgium, and in LA for Arab American Television, Motown and Screen Gems Publishing, Hanna Barbera, and artists Johnny Mathis, Joan Rivers, Olivia Newton-John, Tony Orlando, The Moody Blues, The Temptations, and television's Taxi.
Mike McMullen has been a professionally working musician for over 30 years. His career as a performer, composer, arranger, and educator has taken him all over North America, Europe, and Scandinavia, and into almost every imaginable musical setting.
He studied clarinet at the NaviBase Music School in Little Creek, Virginia, jazz saxophone with Joe Henderson in San Francisco, and flute at the SF Conservatory with Mong Pil Kim. Mike was awarded a NARAS Scholarship in 1978 to study composition and arranging at the prestigious Dick Grove School in Los Angeles, and he continued studio woodwind and recording studies there with Phil Sobel for seven years.
Mike is a founding member of the Sacramento region's premier jazz group, the Capital Jazz Project. He is currently in his tenth year as director of the UC Davis Jazz Band, is a jazz faculty member at CSUS and ARC, performs summer and winter shows for California Musical Theatre, records commercial projects periodically, and travels back to Europe to work every year. Mike also performs many elementary school programs in the greater Sacramento area and maintains a large private student roster.
Aside from his work as a leader, Mike has performed in concert, toured, or recorded with such artists as Ray Charles, Dave Liebman, Randy Brecker, Bobby Shew, Sonny Fortune, Manhattan Transfer, Dianne Schuur, Doc Severinsen, Natalie Cole, Pepper Adams and Kenny Wheeler.
Commercially, he has worked as an arranger, conductor or performer with Radio Orchestras in Ireland, Denmark and Belgium, and in LA for Arab American Television, Motown and Screen Gems Publishing, Hanna Barbera, and artists Johnny Mathis, Joan Rivers, Olivia Newton-John, Tony Orlando, The Moody Blues, The Temptations, and television's Taxi.