Michael Thurber

Songwriter, bassist, and producer Michael Thurber’s career defies category, from composing scores for The Royal Shakespeare Company and playing bass in The Late Show With Stephen Colbert house band to scoring commercials for Vanity Fair and the BBC and co-founding the hit YouTube channel CDZA (30 million views). As a theater lyricist and composer, Thurber made his international debut scoring Antony and Cleopatra, directed by Academy Award winner Tarell McCraney. He has scored numerous Public Theater productions, including Shakespeare in the Park’s Merry Wives of Windsor, Romeo y Julieta starring Academy Award winner Lupita Nyong’o, and Richard II starring André Holland. As a bassist, he has performed with James Taylor, Willie Nelson, Chris Thile, Lianne La Havis, Cee Lo Green, Yo-Yo Ma, The Zombies, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jon Batiste, and many others. Currently he tours the world in a duo with GRAMMY-nominated violinist Tessa Lark.