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Professor of Music Industry Studies Kim Kamerin

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​​​Kim Kamerin
Kim Kamerin, M.B.A.
Department Co-Chair
Professor, Music Industry Studies

(951) 738-7703
ATEC 214
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Professor Kamerin is an award-winning educator and twenty-year veteran of the music classroom.
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​​​​​​Brady Kerr
Brady Kerr​, A.A.​​​
​​Assistant Professor, Music Industry Studies
(951) 372-7197
THTR 207
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Brady Kerr is a Grammy®-nominated educator, a voting member of The Recording Academy, and has been in the music and theater business for over 40 years.
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​​​Megan Lindeman
Megan Lindeman, M.F.A.
Associate Professor, Art
(951) 372-7107​
ST 116
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Megan Lindeman is a transdisciplinary artist whose background is in painting.
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​​​Michelle Ramin
Michelle Ramin, M.F.A.
Assistant Professor, Art
(951) 738-7733
STEM 200C
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Hailing from the mountains of North Central Pennsylvania, Michelle Ramin received her BA from Penn State University and her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute.
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​​​Walter Stevens
Walter Stevens, M.F.A.
​Professor of Theater Arts​
(951) 372-7025
HUM 106B
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Walter “Buck” Stevens is Professor of Theatre Arts at Norco College in California, and has been at the college since 1995.
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VPA Associate Faculty Iñaki Zubizarreta

Associate Faculty

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​​​Aaron Eastwood
Aaron Eastwood
Associate Faculty, Music Industry Studies
Arts, Humanities,
& World Languages

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Aaron Eastwood, a native of Riverside, California, joined the Music Industry Studies department in 2015.
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​​​Nancy Bliss Estes
Nancy Bliss Estes
Associate Faculty, Music
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& World Languages

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Nancy Bliss Estes has had a varied 35 yr. musical career as a mezzo-soprano and music educator.
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​​​Eileen Holt
Eileen Holt
Associate Faculty, Music
Arts, Humanities,
& World Languages

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Flutist, Eileen Holt, is an accomplished and versatile performer.
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​​​Ben Palispis
Ben Palispis
Associate Faculty, Music
Arts, Humanities,
& World Languages

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Ben Palispis is a multi-instrumentalist, who has over a decade of teaching and professional playing experience.
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​​​Nancy Pirozzi
Nancy Pirozzi
Associate Faculty, Music
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& World Languages

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Nancy Pirozzi studied Piano Performance at UC Irvine under Nina Scolnik, a leading exponent of the Taubman Approach, a groundbreaking analysis of the mostly invisible motions that function underneath a virtuoso technique.
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​​​Zarif Shehata
Zarif Shehata
Associate Faculty, Music
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& World Languages

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Zarif Shehata holds a Ph.D. in Music 2007, Masters 1999, and Bachelors 1993 from Helwan University.
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​​​Martin Torres
Martin Torres
Associate Faculty, Music
Arts, Humanities,
& World Languages

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Martin Torres holds a Bachelor’s Degree in composition and bass performance from Chapman University.
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​​​Tyler Walton
Tyler Walton
Associate Faculty, Music
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& World Languages

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Tyler Walton is a professional drummer and percussionist with many years of experience teaching, performing live, and recording in the studio.
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​​​Iñaki Zubizarreta
Iñaki Zubizarreta
Associate Faculty, Music
Arts, Humanities,
& World Languages

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Iñaki Zubizarreta is originally from The Basque Country, in Northern Spain. He graduated from the Conservatorio Superior de Musica de Bilbao, Spain, as a Music/Piano major.
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