The Vanderveers: Bruce “Automatic” Vanderveer & 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

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

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