Michael Alden Bayard

Quick Facts

Full Name	Michael Alden Bayard
Date Of Birth	Nov 26, 1958(1958-11-26)
Age	66
Birthplace	Manhattan
Country	United States
Birth City	New York
Horoscope	Sagittarius

Michael Alden Bayard Biography

Michael Alden Bayard is one of the most popular and richest Composer who was born on November 26, 1958 in Manhattan, New York, United States.

Michael Alden Bayard (born November 26, 1958) is an American percussionist, drummer, composer, recording artist, music lecturer, and author. A graduate of the Juilliard School of Music Pre-College Division and the Curtis Institute of Music who made his Carnegie Hall debut at age 16, Bayard has performed percussion and timpani under numerous conductors. As a percussion soloist, he served with the Sacramento Symphony as the principal percussionist for 17 years and has been featured with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Boston Pops Orchestra, New Jersey Symphony, Queens Symphony, Joffrey Ballet Orchestra, Jacksonville Symphony, Reno Philharmonic, Stockton Symphony, and Santa Rosa Symphony. Bayard currently performs with Grammy award-winning Mary Youngblood.

At age 15, Bayard attended the Juilliard School of Music Pre-College Division on full scholarship, in the field of percussion and timpani. At 16, he performed his Carnegie Hall debut on solo percussion with the New York Youth Symphony. In 1975, at age 17, Bayard appeared as a musician in the notable Coca-Cola commercial “Look Up America.” In 1976, Bayard attended the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia on full scholarship. At Curtis, Bayard performed percussion and timpani under conductors Riccardo Muti, Claudio Abbado, Leonard Slatkin, Paul Paray, Klaus Tennstedt, Yuri Temirkanov, and Dmitri Kitayenko. At Curtis in 1977, Bayard was artifact consultant on the Leopold Stokowski Musical Instrument and Orchestral Score Collection, which included a collection of exotic and unusual musical instruments acquired by Stokowski during his world travels. There, he gained an appreciation of ancient instruments that would inform his later career. During his Curtis years, Bayard performed on percussion with the Queens Symphony Orchestra and the New Jersey Symphony. He also performed as part of duo with percussionist Andrew Power on a Philadelphia Orchestra program in Mallet Mania. In his final year with the Curtis Symphony Orchestra, Bayard played principal timpani in a performance of Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, conducted by Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia. This particular performance is arguably considered one of the most intense and ferocious performances of this work in the last century.

Michael Alden Bayard Net Worth

Michael Alden Bayard is one of the richest Composer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Michael Alden Bayard 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Michael Bayard was born in Manhattan, New York, and attended public school in Flushing, Queens. His father Leo Bayard was a professional actor who studied at the Max Reinhardt Theatre and is known for his work in the touring company of the Broadway play Detective Story (1949), and with Lux Video Theatre and the Philco-Goodyear Television Playhouse. His mother Betty Bayard (stage name Elizabeth George) was an actress who later operated a drama and dance school with his father in Queens, New York.

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From 1987 through 1992, Bayard was Contributing Editor and Editor of the Timpani Column for Percussive Notes, the official trade journal of the Percussive Arts Society.

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Cathy Ranked on the list of most popular Composer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Michael Alden Bayard celebrates birthday on November 26 of every year.

In 1989, Bayard was a founding member of the percussion trio The Percussion Clique who performed the West Coast premiere of composer Russell Peck’s percussion concerto The Glory and the Grandeur, with the Sacramento Symphony.