Michael Fitzpatrick (cellist) (original) (raw)

Michael Fitzpatrick is an American Cellist and Composer. Fitzpatrick is the recipient of The Prince Charles Award for Musical Excellence conferred by the Prince of Wales. Based in Los Angeles, he is the founder, chairman and artistic director of Millenia Music and its Earth's Call production. Fitzpatrick has musically collaborated for the past nineteen years with the 14th Dalai Lama as part of Tuning The Planet, an East-West musical recording inside the largest cave in the world, Mammoth Cave National Park. The Dalai Lama stated: “The emotion induced by Michael Fitzpatrick’s music is so powerful, it seems almost verbalized.”