Michael Whalen (born December 2, 1965) is a composer of over 650 television and film scores and thousands of advertising jingles.
[citation needed] In May 1987, Whalen attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston (from 1984 - 1985) and the University of Maryland/College Park (1985 - 1987) and moved to New York City.
It was at Elias that Whalen did his first sound design and composition of national advertisements (Pepsi, Coca-Cola, BMW, Nutrasweet, IBM, Ford and many others).
In 1990, Michael scored his first major television series entitled "Childhood" which was broadcast on PBS in the United States.
He completed work on the soundtrack for the film Veronika Decides to Die starring Sarah Michelle Gellar in 2008.
[6] In 2017, Whalen produced "Tiny Hands", a protest song written for the Inauguration of Donald Trump and the Women's March on Washington and performed by Fiona Apple.