Instructor Spotlight: Johnathan Campbell

1. Tell us a little about the music you make.  My music is mainly about my life experiences, things I’ve personally gone through, and sometimes what’s on my mind. It’s music that could be relatable to my listeners and hoping to bring a new perspective through my...

Instructor Spotlight: Alex Wing

Tell us a little about the music you make. Much of my original music is freely improvised, though I also have a singer/songwriter project under my own name, and my punk/metal band People In Trouble. After graduating college, I became involved in jazz and improvised...

Instructor Spotlight: Dre Meza

Tell us a little about the music you make. The throughthread of my music is a focus on the human voice as a versatile instrument. Our voices are so uniquely ours, shaped by our emotions, memories, physical being, and relationship to our surroundings. In the music that...

Instructor Spotlight: Lara Jenkins

 Tell us a little about the music you make. I’m currently working on Choral arrangements of gospel or popular songs for different events that I lead or coordinate.  How did your musical education start? My love for music started at home, especially from my dad who was...

Instructor Spotlight: Dakari Waddell

Tell us a little about the music you make. I’m super influenced by people like Stevie wonder, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, and Billy Joel. How did your musical education start? My grandma started teaching me piano at age 4 and I started playing by ear from...

Instructor Spotlight: Vivian McConnell

Tell us a little about the music you make. I make music that I like to call “nap-rock”: gentle and flowing but with a dissonant bite to it. I write all the songs to be played just with me and my guitar, but add soundscapes and tons of flutes to round it...