About

Award winning filmmaker, Michael Sinicropi, is known for creating artistic and story based cinematic experiences through film.

He has worked in the medium of video for over half a decade and has amassed a body of work that includes commercials, social media advertising, music videos, short documentaries and concert videos. His celebrated form of expression through film has been viewed all over the world with over two hundred thousand views on Youtube.  His artistic style of blending cinema and classical music has led him to emerge as a leading voice in the genre of cinematic classical music.

Michael’s filmography of music videos, in partnership with The Mattina R. Proctor Foundation, featuring the music of grammy nominated composer Joseph Summer, have included “Sycorax”, “Sonnet CXXVIII”, “Habanera: A Love Story”, “O God, That I Were A Man”, “The Lady Doth Protest Too Much” and “There Missing Queens”.  These films have spearheaded a new direction in the string quartet and chamber music repertoire by offering an alternative perspective of visual music.  Summer writes, “Sinicropi’s deep understanding of the technical and rhythmic underpinning of the music he utilizes has resulted in unique works of art in which the viewer becomes unconsciously ‘in tune’ with the films he creates.”  Notable collaborators include members of the Ulysses Quartet, cellist from the Ulysses Quartet Grace Ho, pianist Lachlan Glen, tango dancer Michelle Lamb, mezzo-soprano Pascale Spinney, hornist and educator Joshua Michal, mezzo-soprano Melanie Forgeron and cellist from the Neave Trio Mikhail Veselov.

Other videography Michael has been a collaborator, include live-streaming The Albany Symphony, Concert Artists Guild, Young Concert Artists, Bulgarian Concert Evenings in New York, The Omega Ensemble, Salon De Virtuosi and the Kallos Chamber Music Series.

His collaboration with prolific composer Stanley Grill and avant-garde dancer Mariko Endo yielded the film “American Landscapes”, premiered on October 2021 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Balcony Bar from Home series. That collaboration yielded there Telly Award wins for Videography/ Cinematography, Music Videos and Use of Music.

Michael’s portfolio of commercial work includes video for start up company Pop On Pickups and for Breathe, a yoga studio based in Rochester New York.

Michael has degrees in music performance from Oberlin College and Boston University.  He has taken acting classes at The Barrow Group.  Michael draws his artistic influences from his love of cinema and his background as a professional trumpet player.