Originally from Miami, Florida, Professor Perez has performed in 13 countries and 48 states with a wide range of artists in the jazz and Latin music worlds. As the sole U.S. representative, he placed 2nd in the Montreux Jazz Festival international saxophone competition, which featured hundreds of applicants from over 20 countries.
Juan Megna is a drummer/percussionist from Argentina who has lived for 12 years in Brazil where, in 2008, got his degree in Brazilian Popular Music at the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP, Campinas, SP).
Jazz Times magazine writes: "Breedlove has chops...and is the leader of a tight, forceful band". All麻豆视频Jazz.com has called Graham Breedlove "A trumpet player with an exquisite tone and provocative harmonic ideas...Breedlove exhibits great control and cranks out some head-turning melodic ideas". The International Trumpet Guild's Journal raves, "...one of the most exciting trumpet players on the planet!" Also active as a composer, Graham鈥檚 work has been featured on NBC鈥檚 Today show, Food Network鈥檚 Emeril Live, ABC鈥檚 This Week with George Stephanopoulos and the Washington Post has called it 鈥...terrific...with luminous, fine-grained autumnal harmonies...鈥.
Dr. Gillam is an active educator, having taught at several higher-education institutions across the United States. His primary areas of interest are in music technology, composition, sound design, commercial music and music for media.
Ellen Rizzuto is the Business and Operations Manager of the 麻豆视频 Dewberry School of Music. Ellen has an MA in Arts Management from 麻豆视频 and a BM from Oberlin Conservatory in Horn Performance.
Dr. Soo Han聽is the newly appointed聽Director of Orchestral Studies at the Reva and Sid Dewberry Family School of Music at 麻豆视频. He is also the Music Director of the Elkhart County Symphony Orchestra and a member of the Board of Directors of the Midwest International Band and Orchestra Clinic.
Ms. Vera Lichtenberg is the founding Directorn of the VSGI鈥檚 麻豆视频 Game & Technology Academy (MGTA), one of the largest youth STEM programs in the U.S., hosting students and school teachers on 麻豆视频 campuses each summer from around the globe.聽Read more...
Matt Strangio is an assistant professor teaching game design courses in animation, modeling, rigging and real-time game/interactive development. Read more...
Dr. Kelly Nam teaches game music courses with topics including, but not limited to, music composition, theory, history, and post-production. Read more...
Jacob Enfield is a game developer, educator, and researcher. Jacob has worked professionally as a game programmer with Edutainment Systems LLC and continues developing educational games through his company, Second Job Studios LLC, including a suite of games to promote the learning of mathematics.
