Panos Panay

Panos Panay is the Founding Managing Director of Berklee ICE (Institute for Creative Entrepreneurship) as well as a passionate entrepreneur and active startup mentor in the creative media space. As the founder of Sonicbids, he created the leading platform for bands to book gigs and market themselves online, building a subscriber network of 550,000 bands and 35,000 promoters from over 100 countries. Panay led the company as CEO for 13 years, from its inception until after its successful acquisition by Backstage LLC, in a deal backed by Guggenheim Partners.

He is widely credited for spotting and capitalizing early on three distinct emerging trends in the music business over the last decade: the shift to a primarily online means of marketing; the emergence of an “artistic middle class”; and the shift from a record-label funded industry to a consumer /brand-funded music business.

Panay writes weekly about startups and entrepreneurship for blogs and publications such as Huffington Post, Forbes, WSJ Accelerators and Fast Company; and guest lectures at universities including MIT Engineering, Boston University, Brown University, and Bentley College.

In the past, he has presented at industry events like SXSW, MIDEM and CMJ. Furthermore, he has been awarded the Fast Company’s “Fast 50″ honor; Inc. Magazine’s “Inc. 500”; Mass Hi-Tech All Stars; Berklee College’s Distinguished Alumnus Award; and Boston Business Journal’s “40 under 40”.

Panos, a native of Cyprus, holds a Music Business & Management degree from Berklee College of Music.

 

 

 

 

                             Lucas Vidal 

 A native of Madrid, Lucas Vidal was exposed to the intricacies of music composition at a very young age, developing compositional chops that fostered a distinct voice and a unique method of longhand writing skills. He then proceeded to make history while attending Berklee College of Music. He was the youngest student to ever compose and record the score for a feature film with an 80-piece orchestra. Following graduation he moved to New York to continue his studies under the guidance of Richard Danielpour while attending the Julliard School of Music.

‪In addition to numerous feature films, advertisements and video game soundtracks, Vidal’s resume includes compositions for the Boston Ballet, Boston Symphony Hall, and Los Angeles’ renowned Disney Hall. He has recorded more than 100 sessions in most of the major studios throughout the United States and Europe.

Vidal has recently completed work on the music for the blockbuster film Fast and Furious 6 for Universal Studios and director Justin Lin. Other recent projects include The Raven with John Cusack and The Cold Light of Day starring Bruce Willis and Sigourney Weaver, resulting in a nomination for “Discovery of the Year” at the World Soundtrack Awards.

Vidal currently splits his time between Madrid and Los Angeles.

       

   

                       

                       

                         

 

                           Javier Mariscal

 

Born in Valencia, Spain in 1950, Javier Mariscal is regarded as one of the most remarkable designers of our time. He is renowned for his diverse body of work, which ranges from eccentric cartoons and furniture to graphic design.

In 1971, Mariscal moved to Barcelona to study Graphic Design at the Elisava School where he was introduced to comic book writers and illustrators Mique Beltrán, Daniel Torres and Sento. Together they set up the underground comic art collective, “El rollo enmascarado”.

Over his career, he has designed buildings, textile collections, and most famously, Cobi, the controversial mascot of the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games. Currently, Mariscal operates Estudio Mariscal, a multipurpose design and arts company.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

      Erick Crockenburg and Tad Cooke

 

Erick Crockenburg and Tad Cooke are recent graduates of the University of Vermont (UVM), business partners, and life-long friends. Together, they have worked towards developing and promoting sustainable agriculture and have earned numerous grants and awards for their research and work in community development.

Co-directors of New Moran, a fledgling non-profit redevelopment corporation, their story stems from the community redevelopment of an abandoned coal plant in the small US city of Burlington, Vermont. As seniors in college, both Cooke and Crockenburg generated, and passed, a large-scale proposal calling for the creation of a green and sustainable multipurpose art, food and events space within a derelict building located on the iconic Burlington, Vermont waterfront.

Crockenburg and Cooke are currently project leaders of the UVM Clean Energy Fund while assuming roles as project managers for the New Moran under their recently founded Room 9 Redevelopment Company.

 

 

 

 

 

                      Stephen Webber

Stephen Webber is an Emmy-winning composer, and the Director of Music Technology Innovation at Berklee College of Music’s Valencia Campus.  He is the composer and turntable soloist of the ; groundbreaking work that combines a full orchestra with hip-hop, trip-hop and dubstep. Additionally, he has produced and engineered albums for a wide-range of artists, including a recent collaboration with  and Nas for the .

Webber has toured China, Australia, Europe, Central America and the US, and has appeared on CNN, NBC, NPR, and CBS, and in the New York Times and Rolling Stone Magazine. Music Production Analysis, Webber’s course for , won 2010’s international  “Best Online Course Award” from the University Continuing Education Association. Webber authored , the first book to teach the turntable as a musical instrument, and .

His innovative teaching has helped propel his students to the top of the international music charts—garnering multi-platinum records and Grammy awards in pop, rock, hip-hop, jazz, country, bluegrass, folk, classical and Latin categories.

Webber has recorded with Mark O’Connor, and Meshell Ndegeocello, performed with Bela Fleck, Grandmixer DXT, and Emmylou Harris. Moreover, he has designed several recording studios, conducted film scores at Lucasfilm’s Skywalker Rance, and authored dozens of articles and cover stories for Mix Magazine, Re-Mix, and Electronic Musician.

 

 

                     

 

 

                   Michael Sean Harris

Michael Harris, a native of Jamaica, has been an active and central member of the local and global music community for years. Since 1991, he had been a member of The Little People and Teen Players Club as well as a founding member of the Ashe Caribbean Performing Arts Ensemble. During his time with these groups, Harris performed a mixture of musical and theatrical styles while touring the U.S., the Caribbean, and the U.K. Furthermore; he has assumed numerous lead vocalist roles and toured Europe, acting as musical support for Leo Sayer, Petra Berger, Cheb Mami, and Patricia Kaas.

Currently, Harris teaches writing and arranging while he fine-tunes the recording and production quality of his personal works. He is also the assistant director for the School of Music at The Edna Manley College, where he is an instructor of Pop/Jazz Voice and Jazz Harmony and has recently implemented a music technology course within the degree program.

Harris is an alumnus of The Berklee College of Music (2000) where he pursued a dual major in Music Synthesis and Contemporary Writing and Production.

               

 

 

 

 

 

               M.T. Aditya Srinivasan

 

M.T. Aditya Srinvasan, of Chennai, India, is one of the world’s premier young tabla players and is widely recognized as being an up and coming talent within his musical sphere. He was initiated into Carnatic music and western piano as a child and began to play the Tabla at the age of 4. Throughout his fruitful career, he has studied a variety of percussive disciplines under the tutelage of Shri Chandrajit, Shri Rajesh Dhavle, and Pt. Yogesh Samsi.Srinvasan has been awarded the CCRT government of India scholarship and has regularly performed with, and supported, leading artists such as Shri M. Balamuralikrishna, Sriram Parasuram, and Anooradha Sriram. Moreover, he has participated in numerous fusion projects, one of which, Zinx, was adjudged the winner of an all India band hunt organized by Oscar winner, A.R. Rahman.Srinvasan similarly takes active interest in theater and has been part of more than 15 plays with The Mandras Players, Evam, Masquerade, and Landing Stage where he takes on composition, production, acting, and marketing roles.

 

 

 

 

 

               

                 

                         Belén Maya García

 

Belén Maya García, daughter of two great flamenco artists, Carmen Mora and Mario Maya – began her dance studies in Madrid. Trained since a young age by the best – Paco Fernández, María Magdalena, Goyo Montero, Rosa Naranjo, Carmen Cortés and Paco Romero among others – she continued her studies in Seville with Anunciación Rueda “La Tona” and started performing at several prestigious flamenco shows, such as Café de Chinitas and Corral de la Pacheca in Madrid, or Los Gallos in Seville. After spending a year at the Spanish National Ballet, she joined the Mario Maya Company where within three years she went from being a member of the ensemble to becoming the principal dancer and répétiteur of the company.

She was invited by renowned Spanish film director Carlos Saura to represent the new generation of flamenco in his world-renowned film Flamenco. Belen’s performance in this film would become a milestone in flamenco dance as interpreted by women, opening new avenues in terms of concept, musicality, movement, and costuming.

Transparent and in balance with tradition, Belén has perfected her technique and expression to become the best female flamenco dancer. Free, creative, daring, restless and open-minded: Belén still symbolizes progress in flamenco dance. The constant quest for renovation and new challenges drives her from one extreme to another, from the neo-classical entente with Mayte Martín to the contemporary alliance with Rafaela Carrasco.

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                 Ben Houge

Ben Houge is an artist working at the nexus of music composition, video game development, sound installation, performance, and generative video. An eighteen-year veteran of the video game industry, his music and audio design have been heard by millions around the globe in titles including Tom Clancy’s EndWar, Half-Life: Opposing Force, Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30, King’s Quest: Mask of Eternity, Leisure Suit Larry 7, and Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura.

While living in China from 2004 to 2010, Houge collaborated with leading figures in the Chinese new music scene, presenting his work at a range of venues including the Shanghai eArts Festival, the Today Art Museum, the True Color Museum, OV Gallery, the Mini Midi Festival, D-22, Yu Yin Tang, XP, and many more. In 2012, he was named an artist in residence at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has since had his work presented by Boston Cyberarts, Non-Event, and the San Diego Museum of Art.

Houge’s most recent creative activities include the development of food operas in collaboration with acclaimed chef Jason Bond of Bondir restaurant in Cambridge, Massachusetts, involving evening-length events in which he adapts video game techniques to create a customized, 30-channel soundtrack for a five-course meal.

                     

 

 

 

         

                             Clara Barbera

Born in Valencia, Spain, Barbera is a professional dancer, choreographer, and founding member of New Movement Collective, a United Kingdom-based group of new generation choreographers. With the New Movement Collective she has co-choreographed and danced in London, Lisbon, Cologne, Madrid and most recently, in Valencia.Barbera trained at Centro de Danza Mari Cruz Alcalá before continuing her studies at The English National Ballet School. Upon her graduation in 1997, she joined English National Ballet where she danced as a soloist in the main classical ballets as well as the more modern pieces of their repertoire.In 2004, Barbera joined The Rambert Dance Company, where she worked with choreographers Rafael Bonachela, Itzik Gallili, Wayne McGregor, Siobhan Davies and Michael Clark and performed in Antony Tudor’s “Dark Elegies” as well as Karole Armitage’s “Gran Partita”.  Five years later, she moved on from The Rambert Dance Company to participate in other artistic projects, including Variations” at the Royal Opera House’s Linbury Studio and a performance at the “Insound” Festival with music director Josep Vicent.Barbera became Associate Artistic Director and Resident Choreographer for Ballet Clásico de Valencia in 2011 and joined Berklee College of Music’s Valencia Campus where she currently serves as Student Affairs Manager and teaches “Movement for Musicians” to both graduate and undergraduate students.Barbera holds a BA in Business Studies and is currently finishing her MA in Arts Management by the Instituto Complutense de Ciencias Musicales.

 

 

 

                   Ganavya Doraiswamy

Ganavya Doraiswamy was born in New York City and raised in South India. There she learned to play the Veena, Harmonium, to sing Carnatic music and Abhangs while also becoming classically trained in Bharathanatyam and Kalakshetra dancing styles. In addition to these artistic disciplines, she mastered the craft of the Jalatharangam, an ancient and dying instrument once played by her grandmother.Doraiswamy returned to the United States and earned a Bachelor’s in Psychology, where she briefly worked at the Everglades Correctional Institution as a student counselor for the Corrections Transitions Program in Miami, Florida. Although her initial objective was to help inmates in coping with life outside of prison, one particular exercise; encouraging them to write poetry, became her primary focus. It eventually led to the publication of a work titled “Entrapped Words”, featuring illustrations and writings by the men she assisted.Having worked for non-profit organizations; No More Tears (founded by former Bollywood actress Somy Ali) and Vittal Academy, Doraiswamy raised money through performances and brought medical teams and supplies to her ancestral village in India under the banner of “Project Nemili,” an endeavor for which she won the Silver Knight Award presented by The Miami Herald.Most recently, she has written a suite in experimental music that corresponds with the stages of sleep, using the South Indian mode of Neelambari that is believed to induce drowsiness. As a Post-Graduate fellow, Doraiswamy has published a text titled Fundamentals of Indian Music through Berklee College of music and is currently teaching a certification course.

 

 

                      João Bruno Soeiro

 

Joao Soeiro is a music composer based in Lisbon, Portugal. Born in 1983, he began to study music at the age of 19 at the Academia de Amadores de Musica (AAM) and later at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa.

Over the course of his studies, Soeiro dedicated his time exclusively to piano, adapting his skills to Chamber Music while also receiving schooling in Musical Analysis and Composition techniques.

In 2005, Soeiro began attending diverse master classes with some of the most renowned piano instructors in the world, including Elisso Virsalade, Vitaly Margulis, and Sequeira Costa. Following these courses, he went on to receive a Bachelor’s degree in Piano Performance at the prestigious Gnessin Academy of Music in Moscow, Russia where he performed several solo recitals and began to write music for cinema and visual media.

               

 

 

 

 

 

                              Jodie Rogers

Jodie’s background is in Psychology and interpersonal communications. She’s spent the past 14yrs working as a qualitative research studying human behaviour, psychology and communications. She’s guided global marketing companies on how to understand consumer behaviour and apply it to business. In other words, how to understand you.

What makes you tick, how you make decisions, what motivates you and holds you back. It’s Jodie’s business to understand people.

This understanding has taken her around the world. She’s been privileged to conduct research in 39 different countries, personally travel to 52 and live in 4. It was a one way ticket to Mexico and 7 months traveling overland back to Brazil (where she was living at the time) that give her the epiphany she had been waiting for. She no longer wanted to make big companies richer, she wanted to educate, motivate and inspire every day people to live the life they want to lead.

She passionately believes that if people knew even a little bit about the basics of how the mind works it would empower them to take big strides forward in life. After training as an NLP practitioner and an Empowerment Coach she is now on a mission to apply her collective skills to help individuals be more effective in their daily lives. As such, she regularly gives talks on the subject around the world. Most recently in London, Sao Paulo, Barcelona and Jasper, Canada where she now lives.

www.jodierogers.com

 

 

 

 

                                 Andrea Fraenzel

Dea is an eclectic indie singer/songwriter and bassist from Vienna, Austria. With a natural groove, her music is best described as intimate, soft, tense but hopeful as reflected in her songs „Run“ and „Anyway“. The sound of her voice can swoon you like a lullaby but her lyrics pleasantly surprise you with their wit and edge. You may even be caught in a job or two.

Dea’s musical journey included many crossroads and turnarounds until the bass finally found her and became the foundation of her entire world.
Dea thrives on influences from energetic rock and funk such as the Red Hot chilli Peppers, reflective inspiration from her favourite singer/songwriter Ani DiFranco and the melancholy muse of Samuel Barbers Adagio for Strings.
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                              Luiza Sales Rangel

 

 

Luiza Sales is a singer songwriter from Rio de Janeiro that combines brazilian music with jazz and latin american music styles. She released her first album, “Breve Leveza”, in 2012, and toured around Brazil performing in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Belo Horizonte. She won the Lolapallooza Full Scholarship and is a Masters in Contemporary Performance student at Berklee Valencia, Living in Europe, she performed in Spain, Portugal and England.