Michael Reynolds has been the cellist of the world-renowned Muir String Quartet, in residence at Boston University, since its inception in 1979. Accolades he has won while with the Muir Quartet include first prize at the Evian Competition, the 1981 Naumburg Award, two Grand Prix du Disques, the Gramophone Award, a Grammy nomination and a Grammy on the EcoClassics label Mr. Reynolds created. The Muir was also featured in an internationally acclaimed PBS broadcast, "In Performance at The White House" for President and Mrs. Ronald Reagan.  As a member of the Muir Quartet, Mr. Reynolds has performed nearly 2,000 concerts throughout North America, Europe and the Far East, and he has performed with such diverse artists as Benny Goodman, Leon Fleisher, Menachem Pressler, Gil Shaham, and Phyllis Curtin. A native of Montana, he received his professional training at the Curtis Institute of Music, where he was a student of David Soyer and Martita Casals, continuing with Karen Tuttle and George Neikrug and studies at Yale University. Mr. Reynolds has appeared with orchestras and in recital throughout the U.S, and his recording of the complete Bach Suites for solo cello has received much critical acclaim. He is co-founder and Executive/Artistic Director of Classics for Kids Foundation, which offers matching grants for excellent student instruments to string programs around America, and he directs the Muir Quartet’s Emerging Quartets and Composers program in partnership with the Utah Symphony/Opera’s Deer Valley Festival.  He also is Artistic Director of Bay Chamber Concerts’ Fall Foliage adult musician program and the Fredericksburg Festival of the Arts in Fredericksburg, Virginia. In addition to BU, Mr. Reynolds has served on the faculties of New England Conservatory, Rutgers University, the University of Utah, and UC Santa Cruz. He received an honorary doctorate from Rhode Island College in 1995. His latest musical endeavor is development of the Montana Chamber Music Society, which offers great chamber music performance to communities around Montana. In his spare time he is an avid flyfisherman and outdoorsman. He plays a cello by Giuseppi Grancino, circa 1690.