Michael Easton (27 November 1954 – 6 February 2004) was a British-Australian composer, musician, and music critic. He was a co-founder of the . Easton was born in Stevenage and (after encouragement from Elizabeth Poston) trained at the Royal Academy of Music with Lennox Berkeley (composition) and Norman Del Mar (conducting). He worked in music publishing before moving to Melbourne, Australia in 1982, where in 1986 he became a freelance composer. His activities included arranging, performing (in a piano duo with Len Vorster) and writing and broadcasting on music. With Vorster and the English composer Michael Hurd he co-founded the Port Fairy Spring Music Festival in 1990.