About Michelle Packman

My name is Michelle - professionally I work as a string producer called Bow & Aero. I have degrees and skills in string performance and music production. So far in my career I've been blessed to play with artists like Olivia Rodrigo, Camila Cabello, 5 Seconds of Summer, Troye Sivan, Eminem, Chappell Roan, and many others, and on the recording session side, I've played for Bleeding Fingers, Riot Games, and others. As a lecturer I have given masterclasses in professional music at music and arts schools like my alma mater, Berklee, Pop Jazz Conservatory in Helsinki, OC School of the Performing Arts in CA, the SoCal community colleges, and more. I am here with SITM to grow my music ventures. I'm here because I want to grow my music ventures.

Work experience

  • Finesse Strings
  • 2012 - present
  • String Arranger & Producer
  • Ashton Irwin
  • 2020
  • Cellist
  • 5 Seconds of Summer
  • 2020
  • Cellist
  • Camila Cabello
  • 2019
  • Cellist
  • Troye Sivan
  • 2017-2018
  • Cellist
  • Eminem
  • 2018
  • Cellist
  • Bleeding Fingers
  • 2017
  • Solo Session
  • Inon Zur
  • 2019
  • Solo Session
  • Riot Games - League of Legends
  • 2015-2018
  • Solo Sessions
  • Trans-Siberian Orchestra
  • 2017
  • Cellist

Michelle's Skills

Live
  • Artist
  • Backline
  • Touring Musician
Venue Type Experience
  • Amphitheatre
  • Arena
  • Club
  • Festival
  • Stadium
  • Theatre/PAC
Musician
  • Artist
  • Instrumentalist
  • Performer
  • Studio Musician
  • Touring Musician
Producing
  • Mixer
  • Producer
  • Vocal Producer
Songwriting
  • Beat Maker
  • Co-Writer

Michelle's Genres

  • Alternative Rock
  • Classical
  • Electronic
  • Experimental
  • Folk
  • Hip-Hop
  • Jazz
  • New Wave
  • Pop
  • R&B
  • Rap

Michelle's Experience

I’ve had a good career and at the heart of it is contradicting the limiting beliefs people present you with that they themselves believe. I’ve heard all kinds of things, from “we can’t become a better player after 30” to “women over 35 don’t get work”, to internalized beliefs about engineering and producing being too challenging. Instead of heeding, or believing these repeated beliefs as gospel, I’ve tried my best to lean in, and it has been valuable to me. I think the individual skills you earn will always come, and in the moment you have to focus on that nuance to develop real skills, but my motivation comes from a much broader place, from a much more general desire to heal and be my best and it has served me well.