Michael Thurber

Michael Thurber
Thurber in 2024
Thurber in 2024
Background information
BornTulsa, Oklahoma
Occupations
  • Composer
  • songwriter
  • bassist
Instruments

Michael Thurber is an American composer, songwriter, bassist and actor. He is a co-founder of CDZA,[1] a YouTube music collective that performed at the YouTube Music Awards in 2013.[2] Thurber has composed scores for theater productions such as Antony and Cleopatra at The Public Theater and Sugar In Our Wounds at the Manhattan Theater Club. From 2015 to 2016 he was the bassist for Stay Human, the house band on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.[1] He is on the Board of Directors of National Public Radio's From the Top and teaches at New York University's Clive Davis Institute.[3]

  1. ^ a b Suchow, Rick. "Michael Thurber: Staying Human with 'The Late Show' and Collective Cadenza". BassPlayer.com. Retrieved 5 February 2019.
  2. ^ della Cava, Marco. "YouTube to stage its own music awards show". USA TODAY. Retrieved 5 February 2019.
  3. ^ "Collaborate". ELISA MONTE DANCE. Retrieved 26 February 2019.