School of Music

Meltem Ege is an internationally acclaimed vocalist, composer, and educator. Whether breathing new life into a standard or conducting one of her performance explorations through scene-based improvisation, Meltem enjoys taking a deep dive into the power of live performance. She has received... Continue reading »

Emily Evans is a sound engineer, music producer, recording studio director and musician. In 2006, she founded The Green Door Studio, a community-access analog/digital recording studio in Glasgow, Scotland, which has been named Recording Studio of the Year (Scottish New Music Awards, 2010), is... Continue reading »

Stuart Evans co-founded The Green Door Studio in Glasgow, Scotland in 2006, and went on to engineer and produce records for artists such as Golden Teacher (Optimo Music / Warp Records / Rough Trade / Sounds of the Universe), LAPS (MIC / DFA Records), The Amazing Snakeheads (Domino Records) and... Continue reading »

Eyvind Kang’s recent albums are Azure (with Jessika Kenney, 2023), Sonic Gnostic (2021) and Ajaeng Ajaeng (2020). They have performed with musicians including Bennie Maupin, Bill Frisell, Laurie Anderson. They have studied with jazz violinist Michael White and Dr. N.... Continue reading »

Marc has taught at CalArts since 1996, and teaches courses centered around a humanistic approach to Music Theory and composition. He has a CalArts Coursera Class called ‘Approaching Music Theory’ and loves talking about Music Theory and the fact that it doesn’t really exist.... Continue reading »

Guitarist, composer, arranger and musical director Lily Maase was born in Corrales, New Mexico and educated at the University of North Texas and  California Institute of the Arts.  She is the daughter of session guitarist and educator Steve Maase (1946-2016), whose roots in the... Continue reading »

Sami Perez is an engineer and producer at her own studio in Los Angeles, Wiggle World. She’s also worked at San Francisco studios Women’s Audio Mission (a non-profit that helps women and non gender conforming engineers break into the industry), Tiny Telephone (fully analog), and... Continue reading »