Michael Brewer is a lifelong resident of Northeast Georgia; he was born in Athens and has lived in or near the area his entire life, playing at Lake Hartwell with the Classic City Band while he was in high school. Mr. Brewer is currently employed as a Web Developer at the University of Georgia, serves on the board of HEART Music, and is also a board member and secretary of the US PostgreSQL Association. He has undergraduate degrees in music and mathematics from the University of Georgia and recently completed a Master of Music in Conducting (Low Residency) from Georgia State University. He has played trombone in the Athens Symphony for over 35 years; he has directed the Classic City Band (Georgia's oldest continually operating community band) since 2010, including conducting them in a Carnegie Hall performance in the summer of 2026. A lifelong Episcopalian, Mr. Brewer served as Director of Music at Emmanuel Episcopal Church (Athens, GA) for seven years; he attended the Sewanee Church Music Conference for many years and gave a presentation on leading Psalm singing at a chant workshop in Columbia, SC. 

Michael Brewer has studied wind conducting with Robert Ambrose, Mark Parker, Chester Philips, T. Devin Reid, and H. Dwight Satterwhite, orchestral conducting with Mark Cedel, Tamara Dworetz, and Albert Ligotti, and choral conducting with Daniel Bara, Deanna Joseph, and Meghan Stoll. A member of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), his compositions have been performed at the University of Georgia, Brevard Music Center, and the Interlochen Arts Camp; his arrangement "A Christmas Carol Sing Along" has been performed by the Athens Symphony on their Christmas concerts for two decades, and he composed, orchestrated the score, and directed the pit orchestra for a one-act musical drama, "Song of a Child".