Michael Way

Michael is the assistant to cellist Zuill Bailey at The University of Texas at El Paso. A recent graduate of The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, his former teacher Brooks Whitehouse.  He plays a cello made by Joseph Postel.  He recently spent a semester in New Zealand studying with cellist Rolf Gjelsten of the New Zealand String Quartet (who he highly recommends to everyone).  Since May, 2006, Michael has been the cellist employeed by the Special Collection and Rare Books division of UNCG, which house the UNCG Cello Music Collection, at the moment said to be the world's largest collection of cello music.  The most recent aquisitions include Lazslo Varga and Bernard Greenhouse.  He learns a considereable amount from simply studying the parts of these master cellists and seeing how work and approach the cello repertoire.  Inspired by Varga and Musicelli, Michael has also taken up the hobby of trascribing music for cello and variety of cello ensemble.  He plans to pursue a music career based around chamber music, particularly string quartet playing, teaching, and publication.