UNLV Music Library Artist Highlight Series: Michael Abels

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Michael Abels was born in Phoenix, Arizona. Abels studied at University of Southern California and at the California Institute for the Arts. He is a composer, and has conducted orchestras, like the San Francisco Symphony, as well. He is also a co-founder of the Composers Diversity Collective. This Collective aims to advocate for visibility of film composers of color. Most recently, he has worked with Jordan Peele to create the soundtracks of Get Out (2017) and Us (2019). 

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