Bruce “Automatic” Vanderveer and Ebony Rae Vanderveer - The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music
Bruce “Automatic” Vanderveer and Ebony Rae Vanderveer
Lecturers - Music Industry (Creativity and Artist Development)

The Vanderveers are co-owners of inRage Entertainment—a multi-genre, full-service entertainment and production company in Los Angeles, with a current focus in artist development and music and content production. Automatic, InRage’s founder and Grammy-nominated Sony music producer, worked directly with Michael Jackson creating two acts Michael signed to his label, MJJ Records (Brownstone, Quo). He garnered a double production deal with Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis’ label Perspective Records/A&M after which he provided music for TV and film (Jamie Foxx Show, Sister, Sister, Taste and Crush).Automatic has produced music for artists such as Pink, Pussycat Dolls, Nicole Scherzinger, Christina Aguilera, Cher, James Brown and Raven Simone. He has also produced songs for Interscope, Polygram, RCA, A&M Records, Prospective, Morgan Creek, Fox Searchlight, American Airlines and the WB Television Network. In 2015, Automatic launched inRage Entertainment with partner and wife Ebony, a magna cum laude alumna of USC’s Thornton School of Music. The pair has been working in K-pop since 2012 starting with their first collaboration with XIA JUNSU, Uncommitted. Uncommitted debuted at #1 in Korea and China and held the #1 spot on charts worldwide. Their second collaboration with XIA, Incredible, debuted at #1 on Japan’s Tower Records Charts and iTunes charts and it debuted at #5 on Billboard’s World Album Charts. Rock The World and Twice’s I’m Gonna Be A Star, co-written by the Vanderveers and have both gone on to top charts and become fan favorites in Asia and abroad. 

inRage Entertainment 

inRage Entertainment is a multi-genre family of artists. We’re a home for the underdogs. An encouraging environment for artists to feel free to express themselves, no matter their background or story.

Get to know us: www.inRage.com | https://www.instagram.com/inrageent

Hans Fjellestad
Lecturer - Music Industry (Music Supervision)
Amy Kathryn Kuney
Lecturer - Music Industry (Songwriting)
David MacFadyen
Professor - Music Industry, Musicology and Comparative Literature (Career Skills, History of Music Industry, Internships), Director of Graduate Programs
Tony Brancato
Lecturer - Music Industry (Influence and Data Mining)
Michelle Moreno
Lecturer - Music Industry (Finance and Accounting)
Lee John
Lecturer in Music Industry (Rock/Pop Ensemble)
David Leaf
Adjunct Associate Professor - Music Industry and Musicology (Music Documentaries, Songwriting, History of Popular Music)
Adam Moseley
Continuing Lecturer - Music Industry (Studio Production)
Erik Madrid
Lecturer - Music Industry (Mixing)
Justin Paul
Lecturer - Music Industry (DJ as Performer, Music Industry Fundamentals)
Monica Chieffo
Lecturer - Music Industry (Influence and Data Mining)
Robert Fink
Professor and Chair – Music Industry, Professor - Musicology And Humanities (History and Analysis of Popular Music, Internships And Industry Partnerships), Director Of The Berry Gordy Music Industry Center
Kathryn Frazier
Lecturer - Music Industry (Effective Communication and Self-Actualization)
Dawnyelle Addison
Manager - Music Industry Program
Jason Feinberg
Lecturer - Music Industry (Digital Marketing and Promotion)
Thomas Hodgson
Associate Professor - Musicology and Music Industry (Music and Data, Global Music Industry)
Allison Wolfe
Lecturer - Music Industry (Music Journalism, Audio Storytelling)
Marc Cimino
Lecturer - Music Industry (Music Publishing)
Mark Tramo
Adjunct Associate Professor - Neuroscience (Music, Mind, and Brain)
Lauren Kop
Lecturer - Music Industry (Digital Production and Beat Design)
Tiffany Naiman
Academic Administrator and Instructor - Music Industry (Critical Perspectives, Capstone Sequence, History of Popular Music), Director of Undergraduate Programs in Music Industry, Career Services
Jessica Schwartz
Associate Professor - Musicology and Music Industry (Punk and DIY)
Jonathan Beard
Continuing Lecturer - Music Industry (Electronic Music) and Composition
Catherine Provenzano
Assistant Professor - Musicology and Music Industry (Critical and Contemporary Perspectives on Music Technology)
Lauren A. Spalding
Lecturer - Music Industry (Music and Activism, Artist Management)
Judith Finell
Adjunct Professor - Musicology and Music Industry (Forensic Musicology)
Stig Edgren
Lecturer - Music Industry (Concert Promotion)
Don Franzen
Adjunct Professor - Music Industry (Music and Law, Forensic Musicology)
Jeffery Jampol
Lecturer - Music Industry (Artist Management and Promotion)
Ryan Svendsen
Lecturer, Music Industry (Advanced Music Supervision)
Tina Farris
Lecturer, Music Industry (Live Music Touring)
Adam Hirsch
Lecturer - Music Industry (How Music Works)
Chyna Ellis
Assistant to the Chair - Music Industry Program

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