(b. 1974)

Mike's music has been performed by the Muncie Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia Brass, Monarch Brass, Shepherd School Brass Choir (Rice University), Cincinnati Camerata, Indiana University Brass Choir, Oklahoma State University Concert Chorale, Cincinnati Symphony Youth Orchestra, the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) Symphony Band, CCM Brass Choir, University of South Carolina Concert Choir, and by soloists and chamber musicians throughout the United States. His Wind on the Island won the 2018 REDNOTE New Music Festival Composition Competition (choral division), 2009 Cincinnati Camerata Composition Competition, and 2007 University of South Carolina Choral Composition Contest. It was also performed in June 2008 at the Cultural Prelude to the Olympics at the Forbidden City Concert Hall in Beijing. Its predecessor In You the Earth, also a Pablo Neruda setting, won the 2006 Arant Choral Composition Prize given by the University of Georgia. Mike's music is published by C. Alan Publications, Potenza Music, Triplo Press, Faust Music, Cherry Classics, and Dorn Publications,

Recent commissions include Brian Utley (Vanderbilt University), the Luther College Trumpet Ensemble, Celeste Johnson Frehner (Professor of Oboe at University of Missouri-Kansas City), the Murray State University Wind Ensemble, Horn Choir, Trumpet Ensemble, and Trombone Choir, East Wind Quintet (faculty ensemble, Lehigh University), Larry Wyatt (Director of Choral Studies at the University of South Carolina), Dirk Garner (Director of Choral Studies at Baldwin-Wallace Conservatory), and the Lee High School Band Commissioning Project (Lee, MA) that culminated with a three-day residency before the premiere. In 2003 Mike wrote Milligan's Wake, a wind ensemble piece dedicated to and commissioned by Terence Milligan, Director of the Symphony Band at CCM, to celebrate his 25th year of service to that institution. The previous year, Mike was commissioned by the Society for the Preservation of Music Hall to write a fanfare to commemorate the 125th anniversary of the downtown Cincinnati landmark. In June 2000, his Out From Under was performed by the Monarch Brass as part of the International Women's Brass Conference and was subsequently included on the group's CD.

Mike D'Ambrosio is Professor of Theory and Composition at Murray State University in western Kentucky and has been there since fall 2008. He has held previous teaching positions at Jacksonville State University (AL), Oklahoma State University, University of Dayton, and Cincinnati's College-Conservatory of Music (CCM). He received his D.M.A. and M.M. degrees in music composition from CCM where he studied with Joel Hoffman and Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon (now at Eastman). Originally from Long Island, New York, Mike did his undergraduate work at Lehigh University with Paul Salerni where he double-majored in music and accounting.