Michele Temple is a guitarist and electric bassist and sometime producer at her project studio Urban Iguana Productions. From Celina, Ohio, she is a long time composing, recording and performing member of international/touring recording artists Pere Ubu. In NYC, Michele has played on Broadway, at Lincoln Center, at The Apollo Theatre, the York Theater, Irondale Theater, 54 Below, Joe’s Pub, the Fringe Festival, CBGBs, and many other locations. More recently, Michele and Hannah Reimann, her working partner in Woman of Heart and Mind – a Joni Mitchell retrospective, received a City Artist Corp grant that enabled them to perform at the Village Trip Festival. Michele has a BA in Music Theory from Ashland University in Ohio and a MA in Musicology from Cleveland State University. Her Master Thesis was published as the academic monograph, “Middle Eastern Influences on Late Medieval Italian Dances: Origins of the 29987 Istampittas,” which won the Dance Perspective Society’s Jose Rollins de la Torre Buena Prize in Dance Literature for most original new book in 2002.

Michele is a longtime music instructor at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, and counts multi-Grammy award winning artist Alicia Keys among her former students. In her teaching, Michele works to uncover each individual’s musical interests and help bring whatever information is needed to enable them to play what will bring them joy.