Guitar
Mike Murray
Mike Murray is a guitarist, multi-instrumentalist, composer, bandleader and music educator based in Toronto. Proficient in a wide variety of styles including pop, rock, classical, jazz, blues, and musical theater, as well as international styles including latin folk, Indian music and more, he performs and records with a diverse array of artists and organizations in many different settings. Some of these include the Art of Time Ensemble, musical theatre productions of Beetlejuice, Back to the Future, MJ: The Musical, Hamilton, Dear Evan Hansen, Titanique, Mamma Mia, Little Shop of Horror, Jagged Little Pill, Mahabharata, award-winning comedy act Garrett Jamieson and Sprattacus, Bollywood superstars Karthik and Vijay Prakash, internationally renowned Sufi rock outfit Mekaal Hasan Band, for which he serves as band director, and many more. He also composes and performs his own music with the Mike Murray Group, a genre-bending ensemble featuring virtuosic musicianship and deep, imaginative composition drawing on his broad range of influences and experience. In addition to his performance career, Mike is an avid and experienced educator both independently and as a long-standing faculty member at Centennial College in their Music Industry Arts and Performance program, as well as at York University where he was invited to develop a new progressive music curriculum in 2025.
