Monica Chieffo
Lecturer - Music Industry (Influence and Data Mining)

Monica is a versatile professional whose experience spans industry and academia as a client partnership strategist, musicologist, harpist, and educator. She is currently working in the immersive technology space with a focus on augmented reality for marketing and branding. Her research interests include music and visual culture, the sensory history of sound, music and disability, and digital consumption in the music industry.

A seasoned instructor, Monica held the position of Teaching Fellow in the Department of Musicology at UCLA where she designed and taught a wide range of course materials about music and society. She also served as a consulting musicologist on various projects, including for two award-naming committees for The Recording Academy. As a harpist, Monica regularly gigs in the Southern California area for special events, celebrity clients, and LA-based artists. She was recently featured as harpist on the multi-media work, Ladies’ Lair Lake, by Trulee Hall that premiered at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Her harp playing also appears on the Grammy-nominated recording “Fourth Stream … La Banda,” composed by Bill Cunliffe.

Monica’s scholarly publications include a chapter in Experiencing Music and Visual Cultures published by Routledge Press (2021) and the Journal of Interdisciplinary Voice Studies (2019).

Natasha Pasternak
Lecturer - Music Industry (Songwriting, Touring, Songwriter’s Workshop)
Catherine Provenzano
Assistant Professor - Musicology and Music Industry (Critical and Contemporary Perspectives on Music Technology)
Chyna Ellis
Assistant to the Chair - Music Industry Program
Tiffany Naiman
Instructor - Music Industry & Musicology (Critical Perspectives, Capstone Sequence, History of Popular Music), Director of Undergraduate Programs in Music Industry
Lee John
Lecturer in Music Industry (Rock/Pop Ensemble)
Mark Tramo
Adjunct Associate Professor - Neuroscience and Music Industry (Music, Mind, and Brain)
Marc Cimino
Lecturer - Music Industry (Music Publishing)
Thomas Hodgson
Assistant Professor - Musicology and Music Industry (Music and Data, Global Music Industry)
Ryan Svendsen
Lecturer, Music Industry (Advanced Music Supervision)
Judith Finell
Adjunct Professor - Musicology and Music Industry (Forensic Musicology)
Erik Madrid
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Hans Fjellestad
Lecturer - Music Industry (Music Supervision)
Adam Moseley
Lecturer - Music Industry (Studio Production)
Kathryn Frazier
Lecturer - Music Industry
Jessica Schwartz
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Michelle Moreno
Lecturer - Music Industry (Finance and Accounting)
Stig Edgren
Lecturer - Music Industry
Lauren Kop
Lecturer - Music Industry (Digital Production and Beat Design)
David MacFadyen
Professor and Chair of Music Industry, Professor - Musicology and Comparative Literature
Dawnyelle Addison
Manager - Music Industry Program
David Leaf
Adjunct Associate Professor - Music Industry and Musicology
Allison Wolfe
Lecturer - Music Industry (Music Journalism, Audio Storytelling)
Jonathan Beard
Lecturer - Music Industry (Electronic Music, Audio Engineering)
Justin Paul
Lecturer - Music Industry
Tony Brancato
Guest Lecturer - Music Industry (Influence and Data Mining)
Catherine Gregory
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Lauren A. Spalding
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Amy Kathryn Kuney
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Jason Feinberg
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Jeffery Jampol
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Don Franzen
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Robert Fink
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