Michael McNeill is a pianist, improviser, and composer from Western New York. He performs in jazz settings with John Bacon, Griff Kazmierczak, Dave Phillips, and the Buffalo Jazz Composers Workshop, and in chamber music settings with Tediyra Barton-Harris, Evan Courtin, Megan Kyle, Katie Weissman, and Wooden Cities. In 2024 Infrasonic Press released his album Barcode Poetry, featuring the late pedal-steel guitar innovator Susan Alcorn. Recent projects have included reunions of chamber groups the Buffalo Bach Project and The Evolution of the Arm, as well as a solo piano recital featuring music of Alexander Scriabin and Dorothy Rudd Moore.
McNeill is Music Director at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Orchard Park and teaches at the Community Music School of Buffalo and SUNY Niagara. He studied at Nazareth University in Rochester, NY, with Beverly Smoker and Paul Smoker, and at the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, MA, with Charlie Banacos, George Garzone, and Randall Hodgkinson.