BIO:

Guitarist and composer, Mike MacAllister, is a Boston native who now resides in the great city of New York. He is a regular member of a number of musical ventures including the Kyle Salunier Jazz Orchestra, acoustic chamber/pop septet Alice, the Connection, a nine-piece world music fusion band led by saxophonist Dave Richards, Argentinean jazz group the Pablo Ablanedo Octet, the Long Island funk band Hydroyum, rock/soul band the Thing In Itself, and Signal and Noise a six-member new music ensemble. Mike currently leads a quartet with pianist Aaron Kotler, bassist Scot Hornick, and drummer James Windsor-Wells.

Mike has studied under the guidance of such teachers as Mick Goodrick, Greg Hopkins, Hal Crook, Michael Philip Mossman, Tony Moreno, Tiger Okoshi, Wayne Krantz, and Dave Fiucyzinski. Mike’s compositions have received numerous awards including the ASCAP Foundation Louis Armstrong Scholarship (2006), the ASCAP Young Jazz Composers Award (2002 Finalist, 2003 Winner, 2004 Finalist, 2005 Honorable mention), first place in the 2004 IAJE Massachusetts Robert Ayasse Memorial Jazz Ensemble Composition Contest, the Herb Pomeroy Award (2003), and the Millican Endowed Scholarship (2004). His commissions have included The Boston Latin School and the Massachusetts All-State Jazz Band. In 2004, Mike released Finders Keepers an album of big band compositions.