He's a world-famous name to people who care about his music, but there are many people who have never heard of George Gershwin and those numbers increase.

In addition to doing more than 150 live performances per year he has also appeared on a number of television series documentaries and talk shows. By 1988 Feinstein was starring on Broadway in a series of in-concert shows: Michael Feinstein in Concert (April through June 1988) Michael Feinstein in Concert: "Isn't It Romantic" (October through November 1988) and Michael Feinstein in Concert: Piano and Voice (October 1990). He is also scoring his second movie The Big Valley.

He currently serves as Artistic Director for The Center for the Performing Arts in Carmel Indiana. In 1988 he won a Drama Desk Special Award for celebrating American musical theatre songs. Michael Jay Feinstein (born September 7 1956) is an American singer pianist and music revivalist.