Courses
Songwriting Studio
Music Intensive + Audition Prep & Performance
Abbey Blackwell
Moving between avant-garde, jazz, classical, rock, and pop, Abbey has been busy gigging as a bassist for nearly two decades, playing with Seattle’s best and beyond: including Alvvays, La Luz, Wayne Horvitz, Macklemore, Jonathan Wilson, and Cassandra Jenkins. However in the last handful of years, she has begun to focus more on composing and leading groups of her own, namely her self-titled solo project as well as the instrumental trio Rae.
Under her name, she has released an EP, and three LPs, each garnering notice from all corners of the web and beyond. Her songwriting calls back to the lyrical, hanging melodies of Sibylle Baier and Linda Perhacs, with angular, geometric chord progressions that lean in satisfying directions. Rendered through a self-assured and distinctive musical vocabulary, her songs offer an inspired and idiosyncratic take on “personal” songwriting, with insights into the central pressure points of human experience that run deeper than transparently confessional.
Outside of performing, she teaches private lessons at Cornish College of the Arts and in her own studio. She also leads the Garfield HS Jazz 2 Big Band and runs clinics and sectionals in a variety of public schools and through STG. Abbey holds a master's degree in Jazz and Improvised Music and a bachelor’s of music in Double Bass Performance from the University of Washington.
Producing Music & Beat Making
BC Campbell
BC Campbell is an American composer of contemporary music. Working with Academy and Emmy Award winning storytellers, BC's music is featured in the Smithsonian, PBS American Masters, NPR, NatGeo, as well as Kanopy and Amazon. As an interdisciplinary composer and multi instrumentalist, he works in film, theater, contemporary dance and performance as well as the concert stage. Recently, NPR's "Lost Patients" was nominated for a Peabody Award.
Intro to Composition for Film, Games & TV
BC Campbell
BC Campbell is an American composer of contemporary music. Working with Academy and Emmy Award winning storytellers, BC's music is featured in the Smithsonian, PBS American Masters, NPR, NatGeo, as well as Kanopy and Amazon. As an interdisciplinary composer and multi instrumentalist, he works in film, theater, contemporary dance and performance as well as the concert stage. Recently, NPR's "Lost Patients" was nominated for a Peabody Award.
Voice for Musical Theater
Alma David Taylor
Alma David Taylor (he/they) is a composer, music director, and actor, best known for writing Boxed Up: The Musical and Ranked, featured in the HBO Documentary “My So-Called High School Rank”. David was selected as a semi-finalist in the 2023 Eugene O’Neill National Music Theatre Conference for his new musical in development The Way. David also co-founded UproarTheatrics.com, a theatrical licensing company. In Seattle David has worked with Village Theatre, The 5th Avenue Theatre, Taproot Theatre, Showtunes, Artswest, and Seattle Children's Theatre. He has also performed at Sacramento Theatre Company, Capital Stage, and the iconic Birdland Jazz Club in NYC. In addition to performing, David coaches singers, songwriters, and pianists at his music studio in Seattle. His students have performed on Broadway, national tours, The Disney Channel, and many regional theatres across the US.