From 2009-2012, Michael was the Head of Strings at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, The University of Melbourne. He is a teacher of all levels and has directed many workshops for the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra’s education and outreach arm, including as Artistic Director of The Pizzicato Effect, an El Sistema-inspired program. He has performed for the Musica Viva in Schools program with the string quartet Strung Out and was a consultant editor for the Series 9 Violin syllabus for the AMEB. He is an AMEB examiner, and adjudicates at competitions around Melbourne, and has tutored for the Australian Youth Orchestra and Monash University.

Many of his past students have gone on to win scholarships and professional playing jobs in Australia, New Zealand and the UK, and have won chamber music awards including first prize at the Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition and Strike a Chord. He has started two chamber music series: one at Epsom House outside Hobart and another in Tribeca, New York, where he has given recitals with Amir Farid and performs on piano with MSO violinist Isin Çakmakçıoğlu. Their latest album, Souvenirs Nostalgiques (2022), is available on Spotify and iTunes . He is the second violinist in the Eroica Quartet and through his years with the MSO he has toured to Europe, China, Russia and America and on many round (golf) trips of Victoria.

In 2017, an injury led him to three years of full-time study in the Alexander Technique to become an accredited teacher. He has attracted players and teachers of all instruments from around Australia and teaches AT at the Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School and the Australian National Academy of Music. He also enjoys working with people in all areas of mastery and in helping people perform the more mundane movements of life more easily and without pain. He is currently applying it to lower his golf handicap, with mixed results.

He tutored at Border Music Camp in 1992 and 1993, and then returned twenty years later. His favourite week of the year is Border Music Camp – of course!