Michael Brand (born 1952) is an English orchestral conductor and composer, also known for his work with members of Van der Graaf Generator.

[2] He was educated at Haberdashers' Aske's School, and read music at University College, Oxford, graduating in 1974.

[8] His Chosen Gems for Winds featured on a Naxos CD of music primarily by Percy Grainger, conducted by Bjarte Engeset.

[11] He composed the musicals "King & Country"[1] (2014; based on Allan Moorhouse's 1923 play The Conquering Hero[12]) and "CLD: The Real Lewis Carroll" (2016; in which Lewis Carroll meets his alter ego Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), and "Guilty of Love" (2017; about Alan Turing),[13] each with lyrics by Bramwell.

[16][17] Peter Hammill of Van der Graaf Generator asked Brand to undertake the orchestral arrangement and conducting for his song "This Side of the Looking Glass", on his 1977 solo album Over.