Michael Mortilla composes, orchestrates and performs his original scores for some of the finest ensembles and artists in the world. Mr. Mortilla is expert in keyboard improvisation in the style of the great masters, such as Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, etc. To date, he has composed well over 600 produced scores for film, TV, dance, theater, silent film, magic, mime, industrials, commercials, special events and the concert stage.

In 2006, Michael was commissioned by the famed Chicago Symphony Orchestra to compose and orchestrate two new works, One Week and The Haunted House, and revive his 1996 work for piano and orchestra, Easy Street, which was commissioned for the 1996 Olympic Games Arts Festival. In October 2006, Michael was piano soloist with the Chicago Symphony. The Chicago Civic Orchestra performed his work as well.

2008 included performances of Michael's scores for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco and at the National Archive in Washington, D. C. Michael composed and designed sound for the feature film Dalton Trumbo's Johnny Got His Gun, starring Ben McKenzie.

Michael's work is slated for performance in 2009 with performances and commissions at (and/or for) The Getty Center, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, UCLA FIlm & Television Archive, The Library of Congress, The Los Angeles Zoo, The Arts Fund of Santa Barbara, The Children's Creative Project of Santa Barbara, the Burbank and San Luis Obispo library systems, and elsewhere.

Mr. Mortilla is a member in good standing of the American Federation of Musicians, the L.A. Musician's Union Local 47 and is associated with Broadcast Music Inc. as a writer and music publisher under the name MIDI Life Crisis.