Composer, producer, engineer & professor
Composer, producer, engineer & professor
Cellist, composer & studio musician
Cellist, composer & studio musician
Sean McMahon attended Berklee College of Music and graduated with a degree in Film Scoring in 2000. In 2003 he moved to Los Angeles and completed the University of Southern California's Scoring for Motion Pictures and Television Program. There he studied with Hollywood composer Christopher Young who hired McMahon to be his orchestrator and assistant. Together they worked on Hollywood blockbusters such as Spider-Man 3, Ghost Rider, and The Grudge.
In addition, McMahon has orchestrated for Oscar-winning composer, John Ottman, on such films as Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer and The Invasion. And McMahon has scored his own films which include The Grudge 3 and 400 Days, which launched the Syfy channel's film division.
Since 2019 McMahon has chaired the Screen Scoring department at Berklee College of Music and oversees two Bachelor's degree programs: Film and Media Scoring and Game and Interactive Media Scoring.
Miklos Malek is an American-Hungarian music producer, mixing / mastering engineer and songwriter. He is known for his deep musical knowledge, dedication to quality and his unique ability to elevate every project he touches in unexpected ways. Miklos’ credits include Ariana Grande, Jennifer Lopez, Armin Van Buuren, Anastacia, Pixie Lott, Yanni, and The X-Factor. His work has been featured on over 15 million records.
Born in Budapest, Miklos has inherited the rich musical lineage of his parents. He studied classical piano and composition while working on pop hits. After receiving his master’s degree from the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, Miklos went to Boston and studied at Berklee College of Music. Soon after he was offered a publishing deal in New York, which led to his breakthrough in the USA first as a songwriter (Anastacia) and then as a producer / arranger (Jennifer Lopez, Anastacia, Dream).
In 2006, Miklos launched his studio in Hollywood, Los Angeles. He began focusing more on developing new artists, mixing / mastering (Ariana Grande, Armin Van Buuren, Aloe Blacc) and expanding into new genres (Yanni, Markus Schulz). In 2010, Miklos was invited to be a judge on X-Factor, the Hungarian version of the wildly popular talent show. Through auditioning thousands of people and coaching his contestants to victory, he gained a deeper understanding of how to bring the best out of artists.
Building on his successful mentoring in X-Factor, Miklos shares his knowledge around the world in the form of masterclasses, workshops and one-on-one coaching (Microsoft, Los Angeles Music Industry Summer Academy, SynthPlex, American Society of Music Arrangers and Composers).
Japanese native Junichi Fukuda has danced with companies such as Ballet Tech/NY, Smuin Contemporary Ballet, Oakland Ballet, Lar Lubovitch Dance Company, Buglisi Dance Theatre, and Peridance Contemporary Dance Company. Fukuda has been recognized with several awards and fellowships, including from the Boston Conservatory at Berklee, the S&R Foundation, the Boston Dance Alliance, the Boston Foundations, the Boston Cultural Council, the American Dance Abroad, the New England Foundation for the Arts and the Mass Cultural Council. In 2014, he founded his company, FUKUDANCE, which has performed at festivals worldwide, including MASDANZA in Spain and Mexico City's Festival Internacional de Danza Contemporánea de la Ciudad, Dance St. Louis' The Spring to Dance Festival, DanceNow at Joe's Pub Festival, and Bates Dance Festival. Fukuda's work has been praised for its "tasteful proposal" and "a work of easeful harmony" by the Washington Post, and he continues to collaborate with local artists in Japan while teaching at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee and working as a guest choreographer for the City Ballet of Boston and the Asian American Ballet Project. www.fukudance.com
Zipporah Peddle joined Boston Conservatory’s voice faculty in 2022 as an Assistant Professor of Voice and Vocal Pedagogy. She teaches Applied Voice to students in the BFA Musical Theatre and MFA Musical Theatre Vocal Pedagogy programs, and Developmental Repertoire for the Teaching Studio. This summer she will speak on musical theatre developmental repertoire at the Vocal Pedagogy Professional Workshop at the Conservatory.
Ms. Peddle sang in nearly 3000 performances as lead vocalist in Cirque du Soleil's top selling production show, O. She has performed in numerous musicals, concerts, cabarets, new musical workshops, tours, and recitals, at venues throughout the United States and Canada. She toured internationally with the professional choir The Nathaniel Dett Chorale, and has worked as a production vocalist, guest entertainer, and vocalist supervisor for various cruise lines. She most recently appeared in Ragtime: The Symphonic Concert with the Boston Pops at the internationally renowned Tanglewood Music Festival.
Ms. Peddle previously served on the theatre faculty at Missouri State University where she created a program of Contemporary Commercial Music (CCM) style and pedagogy courses for the BFA Musical Theatre program. She has led private voice studios in Boston, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and Toronto, and regularly provides masterclasses on musical theatre and CCM vocal style. She has presented her research at conferences for the National Association of Teachers of Singing, the Pan American Vocology Institute, and the Voice Foundation.
Ms. Peddle holds an M.M. in Vocal Performance from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and a B.M. from Memorial University in Newfoundland, Canada. She is a PAVA-Recognized Vocologist.
Grammy and Latin Grammy winning engineer, music producer and entrepreneur. He is the Director at Berklee Abu Dhabi and a former faculty member at Berklee's campus in Valencia, Spain, where he lectured and developed curriculum on the subjects of music production, sound recording techniques, mixing and live sound at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. He has also given master classes throughout Latin America at colleges like Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Tecnológico de Monterrey, and Universidad La Salle.
He has worked on more than 50 albums and 500+ Live shows internationally, for artists such as Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, Janet Jackson, Mexican mariachi singers Aida Cuevas, Pepe Aguilar, jazz legends John McLaughlin and Caribbean Jazz project to name a few. Some of his corporate clients include Samsung, BBC, McDonalds, Universal Music and Warner.
Hedding has created Sandia Sound Studio and Sandia Live, both ventures in Cancun, Mexico, devoted to music production in the studio and on stage. He is also a founding member and has served as Secretary of the CPI (Circle of Producers and Engineers) at the Latin Recording Academy, and actively serves as an advisor of foundations in Mexico and India devoted to the improvement of culture and the music industry.
Stephen is an Emmy-winning composer and the founder of Berklee's DJ and turntablism classes, which are considered to be the first to be offered by a college of music.
He is currently the Executive Director of BerkleeNYC, where he’s overseen the iconic Power Station recording studios since 2017, hosting sessions for the likes of John Legend, Mick Jagger, Disney's Mary Poppins and Frozen. Alongside this, he is the Dean of Strategic Initiatives for Berklee College of Music at large, and an A&R consultant for the Universal Music Group.
Stephen has produced and engineered albums for a wide range of artists. He is the composer and turntable soloist of the Stylus Symphony, a groundbreaking work that combines a full orchestra with hip-hop, trip-hop and dub step. He is an award-winning educator, whose Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) The Art of Music Production has over 30,000 students. He is also the author Turntable Technique: The Art of the DJ, the first book to teach the turntable as a musical instrument, and DJ Skills: the Ultimate Guide to Mixing and Scratching.
Professor Tonya Butler, J.D., LL.M. is Chair of Music Business/Management at Berklee College of Music. She is the first woman and the first person of colour to lead the department in its 30-year history.
A seasoned veteran of the music industry, Prof. Butler has more than 14 years of expertise as an entertainment attorney and record label executive, as well as 16 years’ experience running music business programmes and teaching classes in entertainment law. She has a Juris Doctorate from California Western School of Law and a Master of Laws degree in Entertainment and Media from Southwestern University School of Law, with an international component from Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, England.
Prof. Butler is an award-winning motivational speaker, Toastmaster and author of the self-published career guide, The Music Business is Corrupt or Maybe You Just Can’t Sing?, a book about how to take responsibility for your struggling career. She also hosts a bi-weekly podcast called the B.O.M.B. (Business of Music Bootcamp) Podcast, which highlights the business and legal aspects of the music industry, using high-profile cases and celebrity disputes.
Kathleen M. Howland is a certified music therapist and licensed speech language pathologist. For the past 40 years, she has worked with a variety of clinical populations, using music to enhance speech, language, cognition and movement in habilitation and rehabilitation settings. Her doctoral studies in music and cognition have informed and supported her interest in bridging the communities of science and art in order to identify best practices. She has taught undergraduate and graduate courses at the Boston Conservatory, Berklee College of Music, Lesley University and Boston University. This gives her the opportunity to bring clinical work into the classroom and academic resources to clinical work.
Dr Howland says “I believe in the power of music to reach people with disabilities that are either congenital or acquired in nature. After 40-plus years in the field, I continue to be amazed at the abilities that are revealed and accessed through music. I believe that music is a force for good in the world and it is my aspiration to serve this belief through the best from both science and art.”
With a unique background in engineering and film scoring, Kevin’s work is often at the nexus of music and technology. He has spent the past few years collaborating with Intel to create new forms of music production and performance, and most recently was the music supervisor for Le Musk, an immersive cinematic virtual reality experience, together with his mentor A.R. Rahman. Kevin started working with A.R. Rahman 10 years ago on his Slumdog Millionaire world tour and has now become an integral part of his team, collaborating on other projects such as Pelé: Birth of a Legend, The Hundred-Foot Journey, Million Dollar Arm and many Indian feature films.
Kevin is an Emmy-nominated composer for his work on Momentum Generation. He has also worked on TV, trailers and video games, including Dead Rising 4 and Need for Speed. He recently developed an artificially intelligent (AI) composing algorithm through his collaboration with Intel that will be used for the mascot anthems in the 2021Tokyo Olympic Games.
Kevin spent his formative years in France and the Netherlands, developing a passion for music early on in his life. Although he can play many instruments, he has been a classically trained pianist since the age of six. He continues to perform and to direct live shows, such as the opening musical performance for the Intel 2018 keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show, and A.R. Rahman’s Coke Studio show in India. Kevin has also been working as a consultant for Yamaha and Steinberg for the past 11 years and is the West Coast Steinberg representative in the United States of America. In this capacity, he frequents studios to train musicians, artists and music producers on Cubase, Nuendo, Dorico and Wavelab.
An acclaimed Palestinian multi-style cellist and composer, Naseem is a striking example of a unique musical voice from the Middle East. He is a classically trained musician and improviser, with a reputation for blending Arabic, jazz and classical western music into his performances.
After studying at the Edward Said National Conservatory of Music in Palestine, he was awarded a full scholarship to attend the Berklee College of Music in Boston where he received his Bachelor and Master’s degrees for cello performance.
Naseem is a soloist, recording musician, chamber musician, and teacher, currently serving directing the Arab Music Ensemble at Tufts University. He is a global performer, touring with Danilo Perez’s Global Messengers and Amir Elsaffar’s Rivers of Sound Orchestra. He has also performed at many international festivals and performance venues such as the Detroit Jazz Festival, Lebanon’s Beit Aldeen Festival and the Royal Albert Hall.