Michael Teager is an experienced performing musician, both as a leader and a sideman. His eclectic taste in music – equal parts jazz, popular, and contemporary – affords him the flexibility to be comfortable in many different musical environments.

Mike’s playing has taken him across the nation and around the globe, and he’s performed with notable singers such as Byron Nease, Craig Schulman, Chris Groenendaal, Davis Gaines, Gary Mauer, Holly Lipton, and Jamie Michael Stewart, and physical comedian Rudi Macaggi. He has performed with the West Michigan Symphony, Lansing Symphony Big Band, Lansing Symphony Orchestra, Saginaw Bay Symphony Orchestra, Bijou Orchestra, and the Navigator Orchestra (aboard the Regent M/S Seven Seas Navigator). He is a graduate of Central Michigan University (B.M. – Performance, Summa Cum Laude) and Michigan State University (M.M. – Saxophone Performance), where he was also a teaching assistant in the Musicology area. His major teachers have included John Nichol, Joseph Lulloff, Rob Smith, and Mike Hamann. He has also pursued study with Dave Liebman, John Harle, and Gerard McChrystal, and performed in masterclasses for Claude Delangle, Jean-Michel Goury, Timothy McAllister, Christophe Bois, and Otis Murphy.

Currently, Mike serves as Instructor for Michigan State University’s Office of Study Abroad, teaching Music Appreciation each summer in Bregenz, Austria. Previously he taught Music Appreciation and Music History at Spring Arbor University in Jackson, MI. Previous projects include The Elevator Conspiracy, Zentropy, The French Henchmen, and First Flight.

Mike performs frequently throughout Michigan. Recent recordings can be found on ITAV Records and VagueTerrain.net. He can regularly be seen with Teag & PK and various other groups, and he writes for and manages MT-Headed Blog.