Arranging

Michele Weir arranging at the piano

Michele is a prolific vocal group arranger for professional and educational groups, and her orchestral arrangements have been performed by regional symphonies around the country. Other instrumental arrangements and compositions have been featured for various television programs and entertainment companies.

Vocal Group

PROFESSIONAL

A few of the artists singing Michele's arrangements:

The Manhattan Transfer
500 Miles High

Manhattan Transfer CD Cover

New York Voices

Uptown Vocal Quartet
He Beeped When He Shoulda Bopped

Beachfront Property
O Come all Ye Faithful
Wonderful Peace
Angel Eyes
I Saw Her Standing

Phil Mattson and the PM Singers
C'est Si Bon
Jubilee

Chanticleer

Sixth Wave
Oye Como Va

M-Pact
Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy

M-Pact CD Cover

Voice Trek
Mickey's Diner

Vox P
He's Asleep

EDUCATIONAL

American River College
You're Makin' Me Crazy
Born to Be Blue

University of North Texas

Berklee College of Music

Virginia Tech
You Don't Love Me Like You Used To

University of Southern California

Western Michigan University's "Gold Company"
Let Your Love Rain
Ticket To Ride

Voices Iowa/SWCC

University of Northern Colorado

DeAnza College
Deixa

Millikan University

Kirkwood Community College
If it Could Be

University of Southern California

Mount San Antonio College
So Danco Samba

Cal. State University Long Beach

Brigham Young University

PUBLISHERS

Michele's educational arrangements available through these publishers:

MichMusic
Hal Leonard
Oxford Univ. Press
Shawnee Press
Sound Music Pubs
Mainely A Capella
Heritage Jazz Press
U.N.C Jazz Press
Alfred Publishing

Orchestral

Beachfront Property CD

Michele has written numerous orchestral arrangements to accompany her vocal charts for Beachfront Property, New York Voices, M-Pact (coming soon), and various solo singers. Listen to examples:

Orchestral Excerpts
(with vocal group Beachfront Property)


Solo Singers

Lisanne Lyons
Right as the Rain
If I Only Had A Brain
Never Can Say Goodbye
The Touch of Your Lips

Mary Hylan
Some Children See Him
Angels We Have Heard On High

Madeline Eastman

Julie Kelly

Sunny Wilkinson

Rosana Eckert
Sandman
Rock Me To Sleep

Rosana Eckert CD Cover

Miscellaneous

Michele's original songs were featured on the children's television show, "Charlie Horse Music Pizza" (starring Shari Lewis), and other writing includes big band prerecords for a Holland America Cruise Line show and vocal arrangements for Disney's "101 Dalmations" sing-along CD.

Here are few of her original jazz tunes:

Doce de Coco (Performed by Araca Azul)

Now and Then (Performed by Paul Mazzio)

Cedar's Song (Performed by Paul Mazzio)