YOUNG COMPOSERS MENTORING PROGRAM
This video features music by our composers
Jayleen Montoya, Chris Lee, Matteo Orenlas and Koa Fujimoto.
TECTONIC MERGERS: FRICTIONS IN MUSIC EDUCATION
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Formal music education remains regressive, focused on replication rather than innovation. Non-profits had stepped into the gap, embracing modern music-making and industry readiness. The pandemic’s tectonic shift to virtual creative technologies has disrupted both traditional and non-traditional teaching. Will virtual and non-traditional strategies connect these worlds post-pandemic? Will these disruptive additions help us merge into more pluralist instructional approaches?
Akira Nakano (Los Angeles Inception Orchestra)
David Sears (Grammy Foundation)
Frank Heuser (UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music)
Gigi Johnson (Maremel Institute, Center for Creative Futures)
MENTORS
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KEVORK ANDONIAN
Piano/Composer
August 17, 2020
November 7th Event
JACK ARON
Trumpet/Composer
Vice President
Music Education &
Music Technology
KATE BACICH
Trombone/Composer
Vice President
Music Education &
College Prep
RIC BECKER
Trombones/Tuba
November 7th Event
November 14, 2020
January 30, 2021
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AERALIE BRIGHTON
Vocals
October 10, 2020
BRAD DUTZ
Percussion/Composer
December 12, 2020
KAREN ELAINE
Viola/Producer
Executive Vice President
July 25, 2020
November 7th Event
TOM HIEL
Piano/Composer
Film Scoring
May 18, 2019
2019 Concert
June 20, 2020
November 7th Event
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ASHLEY JARMACK
Flute/Oboe
August 29, 2020
September 26, 2020
EMER KINSELLA
Violin/Composer
July 20, 2019
2019 Concert
July 11, 2020
GEORGE KO
Piano/Composer
December 19, 2020
JUNE KURAMOTO
Koto/Composer
November 18, 2018
August 3, 2019
AMY (AIZHOU) LIU
Singer/Composer
Vice President
DANA LYN
Violin/Piano/Composer
September 7, 2019
January 23, 2021
ETHAN MOFFITT
Double Bass/Composer
August 15, 2020
CLAIRE MORISON
Producer/Engineer
Co-Artistic Director
May 16
November 7th Event
AKIRA NAKANO
Piano/Composer
President, CEO &
Artistic Director
REBECCA OLASON
French Horn
October 24, 2020
VAN-ANH NGUYEN &
MARK OLSEN
Piano/Percussion
Composer/Arrangers
November 7th Event
JAVIER OVIEDO
Classical Saxophone Project
Inception Director
June 6, 2020
November 7th Event
