Our Teachers:

If they are teaching at Devotion, they know what they are doing. We pick our instructors based on their extensive creative and technical experience. We realize that not everyone with skill and talent is also a good teacher, so we also place great emphasis on quality of instruction. Each instructor works with Devotion's Educational Director to consistently hone their teaching game.

Brian Jackson, M.A. – Ableton Certified

Brian is one of Devotion’s founders and is the Director of Education, Curriculum, and Instruction. His expertise encompasses many facets of music, audio production, and education. Guiding his leadership is a philosophy that emphasizes the integration of technical prowess, intuitive creative process, order out of chaos, and a love of one’s craft that is grounded in a strong sense of aesthetics and community. These ideas are spelled out in his book “The Music Producer’s Survival Guide: Chaos, Creativity, and Career in Independent and Electronic music” (Cengage Learning). read more >

Phoenix Perry, M.S.

Phoenix Perry’s work in interactive design and illustration spans more than 15 years. Her breadth of skills include interface design, programming knowledge, and design, with a current emphasis on art, illustration, and creative direction. In 2001 she began freelancing by starting her own design consulting company. Her site designs have won multiple webby awards and become viral phenomena. read more >

Margaret Anne Schedel, D.Mus.

Margaret Anne Schedel is a composer and cellist specializing in the creation and performance of ferociously interactive media. She sits on the boards of 60×60 Dance, the BEAM Foundation, the EMF Institute, the ICMA, NWEAMO, and Organised Sound. She contributed a chapter to the Cambridge Companion to Electronic Music and her article on generative multimedia was recently published in Contemporary Music Review.

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Chris Buono

Chris Buono is a multi-media guitar madman that shows no sign of slowing down. After leaving a successful five year post at the famed Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA as a professor in the guitar department – where he managed the worlds premiere guitar effects lab – Chris returned to the tri-state area in mid-2008 and has been burning rubber with a common denominator ever since. (Make sure to check out his latest online guitar courses here on TrueFire.)

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Matthew Patterson Curry

Matthew Patterson Curry has been immersed in all things audio for the past 14 years, starting with sound installations at San Francisco Art Institute, where he was initially introduced to Max/MSP.  This took him to work at Cycling ’74 for 5 years doing technical support and testing while he lead a parallel life producing his electronic “dork pop” under the moniker Safety Scissors.
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Flavio Gaete, M.M.

Flavio Gaete was born in Caracas, Venezuela, on May 24th 1976. His sign befitting the circumstance of his birth, he was raised by two advocates of the sciences, yet lovers of the arts (his mother is a geologist-turned-photographer and his father is a civil engineer who has played the piano since Flavio was born). His life interests since early on were focused on music and technology.

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Ezekiel Honig

Ezekiel Honig has been releasing his productions to widespread critical acclaim since 2003, in publications as diverse as The London Times, Time Out New York, The Wire, XLR8R, De:Bug and every manner of new-media source, being variously described as “stately,” “evocative and impressionistic,” “ornate,” and “an anthill symphony.”

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Adrian Michna

Ghostly International recording artist Adrian Michna began studying trombone in 1988 in 4th grade. From 1990-1996 he participated in NYSSMA and the annual All County Orchestra in Westchester, NY.

In 2000 he graduated from University of Miami with a Bachelors degree in Music Business & Entertainment Industries.  In 2002 he moved to Vienna Austria and became the trombone instructor at The American International School. read more >

Ableton Certified Training Center



We are proud to be the first Ableton Certified Training Center in Brooklyn. Headed by one of the very first Ableton Certified Trainers, you can be sure that we are at the top of any list for learning Live, worldwide.

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