Award winning Recording Engineer and Producer Michael Bishop has received ten Grammy® Awards including six for Best-Engineered Recording and two consecutive Grammy® Awards for Best Surround Album. He has received the Surround Music Award for Best Surround Mix – Orchestral, and multiple nominations in that category over the past several years. Michael’s music production and sound effect recordings helped Peter Schickele, aka PDQ Bach, earn a record-setting four consecutive Grammy® Awards in the Best Comedy Album category. In 2009 Michael co-founded Five/Four Productions Ltd., an independent full service audio production company, with his partners Robert Friedrich and Thomas Moore. In addition to his current work with Five/Four Productions, Michael has also been the Chief Recording Engineer at Telarc Records, Recording Engineer and studio manager at Suma Recording Studios, and Recording Engineer at Cleveland Recording Company.

As an innovator and pioneering practitioner of High-Resolution Audio, including all Analog, DSD, and PCM formats, Michael has recorded numerous major orchestral, jazz, blues, and pop recordings, plus notable independent projects across many genres. Michael records projects for release on CD, Super Audio CD, DVD, and Blu-ray Disks and all consumer download formats. Having worked on pop quadraphonic mixes in the early 1970s, Michael continues to be an innovator in surround music recording and Immersive audio, and produces many notable surround releases to the acclaim of audio reviewers and audiophile publications.

Michael’s recording credits include Robert Shaw, Yoel Levi, Robert Spano, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Erich Kunzel, John Morris Russell, Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, Lang Lang, Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Utah Symphony Orchestra, The Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Loren Maazel, Christoph von Dohnányi, Franz Welser-Möst, The Cleveland Orchestra; Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Jesús López Cobos, Paavo Jarvi, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, David Zinman, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, North Carolina Symphony Orchestra, Zuill Bailey, Pharrell Williams, Lang Lang, The James Gang, Wild Cherry, Pere Ubu, Dizzy Gillespie, Stanley Clarke Trio, Hiromi Mihara, Yuja Wang, Gautier Capuçon, David Campbell, Tommy Shaw, Melissa Etheridge, Manhattan Transfer, Ray Brown, Gerry Mulligan, Joe Williams, Ray Charles, Chucho Valdez, Monty Alexander, the Count Basie Orchestra, Contemporary Youth Orchestra, Jim Hall, Pat Metheny, Al DiMeola, Bonnie Raitt, Isaac Hayes, the Memphis Horns, Bobby Womack, Liza Minnelli, Clark Terry, James Moody, Rosemary Clooney, Bobby Short, Junior Wells, Carlos Santana, Oscar Peterson, Dave Brubeck, Dee-Dee Bridgewater, Dianna Krall, Shirley Horn, Maria Muldaur, Mel Torme, Frankie Laine, Ernest Ranglin, Andre Watt, and Sylvia McNair. Michael has also recorded major film soundtracks including the MGM musical “The Fantasticks” and the Oscar-winning film “Reds.”

Michael has served on the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences Grammy Award nomination review committees and has published articles in Surround Professional, The Absolute Sound, and Audio Media magazines as well as being a contributor to several books on professional audio recording and surround microphone techniques. Michael is often the subject of trade magazine articles covering subjects as diverse as orchestral recording to high-resolution surround and has been a consultant to pro-audio manufacturers.

Michael is a member of AES, NARAS (where he serves on the Producer & Engineer Wing Advisory Council), ASCAP, AQHA, and NRHA. Michael and his wife enjoy participating in Team Penning & Sorting and Reining with their American Quarter Horses.

Michael's Discography on AllMusic.com