The Inaugural Alumni Board is a passionate group of School of Music graduates representing a variety of musical disciplines and professions. Through engaging events, programming and special initiatives, the board connects our alumni community to each other and creates opportunities for current students to network with and learn from established alumni working in the music industry, as performers and in academia.
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Where School of Music Alumni and Students Connect
Music Performance (Trumpet) '10
Ryan Svendsen As a music executive and musician, Ryan Svendsen has a unique understanding of both sides of the music industry. After graduating from The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, Svendsen assisted in music bookings at United Talent Agency and then artist management at Azoff Music/Live Nation. At Lionsgate, Svendsen managed the music campaigns of over 80 Film and TV Soundtracks…
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Music Education ’03; Choral Conducting M.M. ‘05
Jay Dillon Jay was a Riverside city college transfer to UCLA where he studied music education (BA) and choral conducting (MM) and was drum major of the Bruin marching band. On his way to a teaching credential, he stumbled into a job at the UCLA alumni association. From there he built a career in higher education fundraising and is currently the Executive…
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Violin Performance M.M. ‘95
Liliana Filipovic Violinist Liliana Filipovic received her B.A. in Music from the University of Belgrad/Serbia-former Yugoslavia and her M.M. from UCLA in 1995 where she was a Mimi Alpert Feldman scholar and recipient of the Nakamichi Music Scholarship. An avid orchestra and chamber musician, she has worked with Los Angeles Opera, Los Angeles Master Chorale and Santa Barbara Opera among others. Liliana has collaborated with…
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Music Composition M.A. ’08; Ph.D. ‘11
Jeff Kryka Los Angeles-based composer Jeff Kryka has been awarded by Turner Classic Movies, ASCAP, the RMALA, and the Henry Mancini Foundation. As both a composer and orchestrator, his work has been featured in major motion pictures, TV-shows, video games, and heard in concert halls across the globe. Jeff studied music composition at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (B.M. 2006) and at the…
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Ethnomusicology (Jazz Performance and World Music) ‘17
Satya Fuentes Satya Fuentes is a music executive and musician based in Los Angeles. She currently works on the Original Series team at Netflix where she acts as a creative music executive overseeing a wide slate of projects including Bridgerton, Outer Banks and Stranger Things. Satya previously worked for Black and White Music Supervision under Emmy nominated music supervisor Jen Malone, having…
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Music Education ‘98
Vince Villanueva Vince Villanueva has over 25 years of experience in the Music Industry. He joined the Netflix Music Department in 2018 and currently serves as their Music Clearance Specialist for Animation, Unscripted and various Kids & Family shows. He was part of the Music Team that revived American Idol on ABC and prior to that, served as the Director of Music…
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For more information about the Alumni Board, contact Brandon Faber.