His works have been performed at many international festivals such as S.E.M.A. (Semaine Européenne des Musiques d'Aujord'hui) in Paris, the Festival de musique in Montreux/Vevey, the Gaudeamus Music Week in Amsterdam, the Internationale Ferienkurse Darmstadt, the Slowind-Festival in Ljubljana, Chamber Music America, Los Angeles, Witten, Perth, Melbourne, Vienna etc.) as well as being recorded by numerous domestic and foreign broadcasting companies.

One of the centers of gravity in Quell's work is research into the compositional possibilities of interdisciplinary dialogue. His most important works in this area are: Ekstare (wp Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik, 1990), temps et couleurs I (wp Darmstadt, 1998), Interdependenzen (wp Freiburg, 1998), Satori (wp Singapore 1999), Atremia (wp 2001 in Sofia), anisotropie - (vier) (aggregat)-zustände für klavier (wp International Piano-Festival 2002 Heilbronn), Anamorphosis Polymorphia (wp 2003 in Freiburg), Momentaufnahmen / Caprichos (wp Vienna 2004), zum Schein gebändigt (wp 2006 in Freiburg, Enigma (wp 2007 at California State University Fresno).

Michael Quell was born in 1960. He studied classical guitar at the Musikhochschule in Frankfurt/Main with Heinz Teuchert as well as harmony and counterpoint, conducting and musicology. At the same time he studied composition with Hans-Ulrich Engelmann and also philosophy and theology at the J.W. Goethe- University in Frankfurt. From 1985-89 he studied composition in the masterclass Rolf Riehm at the Musikhochschule Frankfurt and continued his compositional studies with Izhak Sadaj (Paris,Tel Aviv).

He lives as a freelance artist in Fulda, Germany teaches at various Academies and as a guest lecturer at several universities. Since 2007 he has a lectureship in musicology at the J. W. Goethe-University in Frankfurt.