Director and Instructor

B.A. - Mathematics with honors, Trinity Univ.

B.S. - Electrical Engineering with honors, University of Texas, Austin

M.S. - Electrical Engineering with honors,University of Texas, Austin

Mr. Perron has been recording engineer in thousands of music projects - albums, singles, music for advertising, etc. In 1992 he received a Gold Record award for an album he engineered and mixed. In 1994 he received the coveted Platinum Record award. Some of his projects:

Marius is a musician and has played in musical groups for over fifteen years. He has real experience as a teacher: he was College Instructor in Mathematics for 4 years at the University of Texas in Austin. Mr. Perron is author of the book Proper Monitoring In The Recording Studio. He is the inventor and holds the patent for the "Russian Dragon" recording studio timing accuracy meter. Marius is a member of the Audio Engineering Society and the International MIDI Association.

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Administrator and Assistant Engineer

John Moore

John Moore is a singer, songwriter and independent producer. He began making music at the age of six, winning his first talent contest two years later. He played percussion in High School, and went on to earn a music scholarship at Incarnate Word College. In 1995, John produced his first full-length CD, Emmanuel, using top-notch music industry professionals. One of his original songs, Children of the Promise, placed in the Top 10 in a national new artist search in 2003. He has since produced several other local artists.

John and his wife Diana own and operate RestTrax Music, which specializes in music instruction and production. Instruction includes piano, guitar, music theory and worship leader development. RestTrax also does on-location and in-studio recording, mixing, mastering, short-run CD duplication, and video editing.

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Lab Instructor

Richard Landgrebe

Richard Landgrebe is the owner and operator of RL Audio in La Vernia, Texas. He has a passion for both the art of audio engineering and teaching. His teaching style is focused around hands-on experience, and is filled with analogies and demonstrations. He enjoys bringing simplicity to complex operations and instills the same passion for audio engineering in his students.

Richard has over 30 years experience as an electrician, engineering technician, trainer and supervisor with CPS Energy. Richard now has 40 plus years experience in the audio engineering career. A retired musician and a past student music director, he has surrounded himself by sound for most of his life. His interest in audio engineering began as a hobby, but as his passion for the physics of audio have grown, it has become his present career path.

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Lab Instructor

Damian Rodriguez

Damian Rodriguez has played music for over twenty years and recorded it for ten. Damian was Chief Staff Engineer at ZAZ Recording Complex for four years. In that time over 75 albums were recorded, mixed, and mastered.

Working with notable international recording artists, a gold record, Tejano Music Award (TTMA), and Grammy nomination were garnered. Now a freelance engineer, Damian has worked on all things audio including film-scoring, ADR, Foley, Radio, TV, and genres from Jazz to Regional Mexican music.

Currently co-owner SEVENTY THREE RECORDS and owner of Smallest Light Sound.

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Lab Instructor

Joshua J. Adams

B.S. Business Administration and Spanish Language - Trinity University

Master of Business Administration - University of the Incarnate Word

Josh is a multi-instrumentalist originally from Chicago, Illinois. Studying music most of his life, most recently piano performance with Dr. Carolyn True at Trinity University, Josh changed his educational direction and elected to major in business administration and Spanish language, and is currently finishing his M.B.A. at the University of the Incarnate Word.

Despite changing his educational goals, Josh stayed musically active studying and performing, including theory and composition classes with Dr. Timothy Kramer, and playing in various bands until eventually finding full time employment after college at Howl at the Moon dueling piano bar in San Antonio, TX.

Playing the dueling piano gig gave a real world application to all the theory classes and made Josh a confident performer on piano, guitar, bass, and drums. Josh currently is the owner of 40 Rock Entertainment, which specializes in live music events, and on-location recording.

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Lab Instructor

Kyle Smith

Berklee College of Music honor graduate, Kyle Smith, has been in music ministry since 2005. He currently serves as Worship Leader at Community Bible Church, Boerne and teaches guitar, drums, and piano at the Community Bible Church School of Fine Arts.

Kyle has played guitar and bass in numerous bands and ensembles, performing in theater productions, touring acts, and recording studios in New York City, Boston, and across Texas. He is an active multi-instrumentalist, studio engineer, writer, and producer. Kyle began playing guitar at age 11, and is an experienced teacher and mentor.

Kyle has been married to Kristy, also a Berklee college of Music grad, since 2008. They share a passion for writing music and leading worship together. They also share a love for their dog, Tex.