Alumni
Board

Where School of Music Alumni and Students Connect

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.

Music Performance (Trumpet) '10
Ryan Svendsen
As the Head of Music at Angel Studios, Ryan Svendsen oversees and directs all music initiatives and productions across the studio’s slate with a mission to amplify light. His previous role at Millennium Media included being Head of Music and Music Supervisor to over 18 films. Prior to Millennium, Svendsen was a Director of Film and TV Music at Lionsgate
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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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 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 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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Music Performance (Trombone) M.M. ’20
Byron Sleugh
Byron is a trombone player based in Los Angeles, California. He performs regularly on tenor, bass, and contrabass trombones. Byron can be heard regularly performing with groups such as the Disneyland Band, Santa Monica Symphony, South Side Symphony, and many others. He has also performed with many West Coast orchestras including the Long Beach Symphony, Fresno Philharmonic, and the Monterey
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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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Music Theory and Composition, ‘17
Vittorio R. Damiano
Vittorio R. Damiano is the Director of Music at Grooveworx, an independent production music company that specializes in custom and curated music for film, television, and video games advertising. He is the head of sync, publishing, administration, music strategy, supervision, original custom music production, and artist development for the trailer division of Grooveworx, and has executive produced over three thousand
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For more information about the Alumni Board, contact Brandon Faber.