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.
The Vanderveers: Bruce “Automatic” Vanderveer & Ebony Rae Vanderveer
Lecturers - Music Industry (Creativity and Artist Development)
Conducting
Graduate study and training in choral, orchestral, or wind conducting
Ethnomusicology
The study of global musical traditions through performance training, research, and field work
Global Jazz Studies
Jazz performance and musicianship courses are paired with African American Studies
Music Composition
Mentorship in the creation and realization of music for concerts, opera, and visual media
Music Education
Preparation for music educators leading to a BA and teaching credential in just four years
Music Industry
A leadership-focused professional degree which prepares students to transform the creative, entrepreneurial, and executive structures of the music industry
Musicology
The scholarly study of the histories, cultures, and critical interpretations of music and music-making
Music Performance
Study and training towards professional performance careers in Western classical music