Miquel Tejada started studying classical piano at the age of 4 in Sabadell, near Barcelona. This early start laid the foundation for a lifelong dedication to music, as he continued his studies in Sabadell until the age of 11 when he began to study with international pianists and professors such as Alicia Larrocha, and learning from great classical artists like Alexander Melnikov.
At the age of 14, he start learning modern jazz piano with Joan Díaz.
At the same time, he continued his classical studies with Adolf Pla. During this time he played concerts of both styles and won classical piano awards such as the International Piano Competition Ricard Viñes, Joan Macià Piano Competition, and the Honor Award of the Conservatory of Sabadell.
At the age of 18, he decided to dedicate his life to music composition and investigation full time.
His first music composition was written for a friend's short film, Ramón Ruaix, at the age of 13. Since then, he has continued composing music for short films and also began to discover and perform in musical theatre—two fields that have since become his career and passion.
At the age of 21, he founded his own music production company with Ivan Rubio, where he started his career as a soundtrack composer and producer.
He later won the 1st Prize in the Film Music competition at the “7th Art Festival” in Barcelona.
He has composed original soundtracks for over 10 international animated series, numerous commercial TV spots, as well as short films, feature films, dramas, suspense films, and documentaries.
However, music for animation clearly became the field in which Miquel Tejada has worked the most, with titles appearing like “Telmo and Tula, Little Cooks” produced with Disney or “Green Light, traffic safety” -winner of the "ZAPPING” Awards - Best Animated Series of 2011-, and the animation slapstick comedy series "GLUMPERS" which has a complex orchestral scoring, now on many TV channels around the world. He also composed the symphonic OST for a new immersive and interactive literature 3.0, a very new concept of interactive reading produced by iClassics Collection.
Besides his experience in motion picture music composition, he has also participated in many theatrical productions as a pianist, including Working, Fame, and Bagdad Cafe. He also worked as a Musical Director in productions like I love you, you're perfect... now change, Ghost, or Kinky Boots.
He also composed his own musicals like Fràgil in 2008 and recorded the musical album with some of the most popular musical artists of the country. He also composed Tot el que no ens vam dir and Amor Particular, premiered at the prestigious Festival Grec in Barcelona.
He also made the soundtrack for the original play Swimmer In The Secret Sea directed by Jumon Erra, performed in the Catalan National Theatre.
He was the Musical Director of FUN HOME in Spain in 2018, which won the Best Musical of the Critics Awards. And he was also the Musical Director of the Spanish production of RENT in Barcelona in 2019, a show with which he won the Broadway World Award as Best Musical Director.
Performing on stage as a musical director, arranger, conductor, and piano player became one of his main jobs as well, working on the tour of the very successful show I Ara Què?, performed with the popular and renowned Catalan comedian Pep Plaza. He also played and sang with his friend and celebrated theatre musical singer and director Daniel Anglès, on tour with their concert Cançons Inesperades. He was also the musical director of some Spanish and international artists like the very popular comedian Carlos Latre in his television show Inimitable, also for the acclaimed North American composer Scott Allan, conducting his Spanish debut, or the Evita's West End Star Madalena Alberto, performing with her in Barcelona and London. He was the musical director and conductor of Broadway and West End Divas concert on Festival Jardins de Pedralbes in Barcelona in July 2017, with Rachel Tucker, Marisha Wallace, Victoria Hamilton-Barrit, and Madalena Alberto, accompanied by a large symphony orchestra.
He also won the Barcelona Planet Film Festival Award - Best Soundtrack/Music Score and he was nominated at the Ibicine Film Festival for the music of Flotando, a Frankie de Leonardis film.
During the pandemic, he composed the soundtrack for Efímera (Myfly), a Mexican feature film directed by Luis Mariano García, with the Grammy-nominated artist Pamela Rodriguez, released in theatres this past February 2025.
He also recently composed the soundtrack for the GOYA-nominated animated feature film Hanna And The Monsters, produced by Mister Miyagi, OuO Time, and directed by Lorena Ares.
Currently, he balances his work in theatre, conducting the new Spanish production of The Phantom of the Opera in Madrid, directed by Federico Bellone and Maestro Julio Awad, with his work in the studio, composing music for international TV series, including the new Disney series The Jungle Book, BabyTV's Billy Bambam, and the new series The Wawies, now airing on CLAN TV, directed by Ton Pernas and produced by Imagic TV.