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Dave Garnish was DJing on Don FM at age sixteen while studying music at the BRIT School in London, with the guitar being his first instrument. In 1995, he set up Blah Parties in a joiner's factory on Pitfield Street performing as Alf Garnish, spawning what happened after in Shoreditch, London. His engineering career began when Sir George Martin hired him to work at Air Lyndhurst Hall. As he moved up the ranks, he moved across to the EMI Studios Group, which consisted of The Townhouse, Abbey Road, The Manor and Olympic Studios. Artists include Janet Jackson, Madonna, Bjork, All Saints and Massive Attack. Producers ranged from Andrew Lloyd Webber to Nellee Hooper. Until 2001 Dave beta-tested for Emagic Logic Audio before they sold to Apple, in the same year he signed a publishing deal with Universal Music UK.

"Dave Garnish was our in-house producer/writer at Universal for a number of years, and the quality of his work was always outstanding. He's smart, with an extensive knowledge of different types of music, and I'm sure this will rub off at his music production school" Mike McCormack - MD Universal Music UK

Loren Moore is a music producer, multi-instrumentalist and mixing engineer based in Los Angeles.

Native to England, he moved to America performing in bands and writing solo aliases including his own band touring across the US with Mayday Parade, There For Tomorrow and more. Later he started his former alias, IDestiny, gaining millions of plays across major blog sites and achieving releases on Warner Bros and EDM Network while producing and mixing for artists as his career developed.

He currently works with producers such as Richard Vission for song placements with major artists like Pitbull, Austin Mahone and Selena Gomez. He has also mixed for clientele such as Goldhouse, Metro Station, Savi and many more.

Appu Krishnan known professionally as "The Professor". While working with Sony/RCA label as a producer and songwriter, Appu worked alongside Tracklacers and songwriters Jamie Hartman and Phil Bentley on the Christina Aguilera's Album "Lotus". He was in charge of writing and arranging strings and piano for the single "Army of Me". He co-wrote and co-produced Jordin Sparks' single "Christmas Time To Me" which became the opening title for the Universal Pictures movie The Best Man Holiday.

Appu co-wrote and co-produced Greek artist Eleni Foureira's single "Party Sleep Repeat" along with Vassy, Phil Bentley and Blackjack music. Grammy-nominated artist Lisa Harriton, Joshua Bartholomew and "The Professor", joined forces to create Elle Rae's "Lovestruck". Appu has engineered for The Jacksons and is currently developing artists alongside Grammy-winning Roc Nation producer Shea Taylor.

He frequently collaborates with producer Brandon Friesen on various projects including Billy Ray Cyrus, Laura Bell Bundy and Friesen's Arbor TV artists. As an educator, Appu gives lectures at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles, and was 'in the lair' with legendary mixer Dave Pensado on his "Pendaso's Place" channel.

Zack has over 16 years of combined experience as a touring DJ and music producer. With 6 years teaching experience, he is passionate about providing students with professional instruction.

Under the moniker “Lazerdisk”, an electronic/hiphop production duo, he has performed throughout North America and Japan at various concerts including Ultra Music Festival, Snowball Music festival, Surrender Las Vegas, Mansion Miami and Vision Tokyo.

He has writing credits and published works with music labels Dim Mak, Fool’s Gold Records, Mad Decent and Owsla. He’s released several DJ mixes including a mix for BBC Radio 1 Diplo and Friends and Owsla’s The Nest Initiative. He’s also had songs synced on TV and film including an advert with Coca Cola and placements on Comedy Central.

Zack currently works at the legendary recording studio “Sound Factory” in Hollywood attending daily writing sessions for APG artists, which is now home to Mark Ronson and Spotify’s “Secret Genius” project.