Born in Austria, Michael Posch studied the recorder at the State Conservatory of Carinthia, at the Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, and at the Academy of Music in Trossingen with K. Boeke. He is co-author of a publication on early music and has appeared in concerts throughout Europe, as well as in Moscow, Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Morocco, Turkey, Canada, Taiwan and Iran. He has participated in many recordings, broadcasts and television appearances, both as a soloist and also with various early music ensembles, including Accentus, Oni Wytars, the Clemencic Consort, and the Concentus Musicus with Nikolaus Harnoncourt. Since 1991 he has directed the international Unicorn Ensemble. He has givens masterclasses for the recorder and teaches recorder and early music at the Conservatory of Vienna, where he is director of the Department of Early Music.