Michael Runyan has been making music as a composer, arranger, performer, and conductor for many years. He was born in San Diego and raised in Denver, where he began piano lessons at age six and started playing trumpet and horn in grade school.
    During high school, Runyan began composing and arranging, a discipline he pursued at Brigham Young University and the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, ultimately receiving a doctoral degree. He has created hundreds of compositions and arrangements (many in collaboration with his wife Pamela), contributing to the orchestral and choral repertoires.
    Runyan and his wife currently reside in Nashville and have four children.