SCVYO Summer Session 2025
Get ready to play, produce, and rock out at our hands-on MUSIC PRODUCTION SUMMER CAMP!
Dive into music creation at our hands-on music production summer camp, where you'll strengthen your ear training, music theory, and recording skills—all while actively playing your instrument.
Students will collaborate to form a band or ensemble, design their own logo, and use cutting edge music technology to bring their sound to life.
Blending live performance with modern production techniques, all students will walk away with a professionally mastered track that showcases their unique vision, and a behind-the-scenes look at the inner workings of the professional music industry.
*Minimum 3 years experience required
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MEET THE INSTRUCTORS
Jared Meeker
Jared Meeker is a Los Angeles-based composer, guitarist, producer, educator, and author whose work spans film, television, and interactive media. His original scores have earned critical acclaim in award-winning films such as Take Me to Tarzana, 3, and Interreflections, as well as celebrated shorts including Los, Lana Turner’s Eyes, and Like Trees. Jared has collaborated with notable composers such as Zoë Keating, Alan Lazar, and Michael Tuller, and brings a versatile musical voice rooted in blues, rock, world-music, hip-hop, electronica, and classical traditions.
A graduate in performance and composition from California Institute of the Arts, Jared has led workshops and masterclasses at USC, UCLA, Seattle Pacific University, SUNY, Los Angeles Music Academy, Crown of the Continent, and the National Guitar Workshop. His industry credits include music featured in Dexter, Smash, Fuel (Sundance award-winner), Sunken City (Best Music, Dubuque Int'l Film Festival), and on major networks including MTV, NBC, Showtime, CBS, TNT, and VH1.
Jared’s production expertise extends to sound design and technology; he has created sample libraries for Loopmasters UK and Big Fish Audio, developed several plugins as Meeker FX, and produced music education content for Producertech and Alfred Music. He has authored numerous instructional books, appeared in Guitar Player and Guitar World, and contributed as a columnist for Premier Guitar. His artist collaborations include work with Nate Dogg, Snoop Dogg, Freestyle Fellowship, Karen O, Hollie Cook, Dolly Parton, and Salvador Santana.
Mark Gutierrez
Mark Gutierrez is a Los Angeles-born upright/electric bassist, vocalist, composer, lyricist, and producer. He has been performing in the greater Los Angeles area for over ten years with a variety of ensembles ranging in genre from Latin music to jazz to classical/orchestral to hip hop and more.
Mark currently holds monthly residencies at Belle Vie (Mark Gutierrez Trio), the Edmon (Kristen Lynn and the Foxgloves), and Idle Hour (Kristen Lynn and the Foxgloves). He has performed at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, Royce Hall, the Aratani Theater, the Venetian Theater (Las Vegas), and many more notable venues.
Mark has released a jazz/hip hop album, Jungle Rhythm, in collaboration with pianist Nick Carlozzi. As a producer and rapper, Mark taps into his alter-ego, Sikán, to fuse hip hop, Latin genres, and psychedelic rock into a cluster of rhythm and rhymes.
Chloe Villamayor
Chloe Villamayor is a Los Angeles-based interdisciplinary artist whose works explore the role of the body in the physicalization of the internal and intangible. She believes music is not simply a reflection of the world but a tool to heal it and creates opportunities for people to transform what's within into movement and growth. Her works span diverse sound worlds, from avant-garde electronics, to her art-pop solo project, Gari, contemporary concert music to performance art. She has worked with ensembles including members of the International Contemporary Chamber Ensemble, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, members of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and midwest emo band Frat Mouse.
Additionally, she has collaborated with choreographers from USC’s Kaufman School of Dance, and filmmakers from USC’s School of Cinematic Arts. Chloe is pursuing her Bachelor’s degree in music composition at the University of Southern California, where she has studied with Christopher Trapani, Ted Hearne, Nina Young, Tom Hall, and Camae Ayewa (Moor Mother).
BONUS SEMINARS:
2025-2026 AUDITION PREP SESSIONS
Need some help getting ready for SCVYO Auditions? These optional 1-day seminars will focus on preparing the required audition excerpts for SCVYO auditions, as well as giving students invaluable audition tips they can use in all future audition/performance scenarios.
FREE for camp participants - $50/per session for non-participants
Tuesday, July 8th 2025 | 3:30-5:30 PM: STRINGS w/ Rachel Iba, SCVYO Artistic Director
Wednesday, July 9th 2025 | 3:30-5:30 PM: BRASS w/ Mason Moy
Thursday, July 10th 2025 | 3:30-5:30 PM: WOODWINDS w/ TBA
Need some help getting ready for SCVYO Auditions? These optional 1-day seminars will focus on preparing the required audition excerpts for SCVYO auditions, as well as giving students invaluable audition tips they can use in all future audition/performance scenarios.
$50 Session Fee + $2 Processing Fee
FREE to all enrolled camp students!
Tuesday, July 8th 2025 | 3:30-5:30 PM: STRINGS w/ Rachel Iba, SCVYO Artistic Director
Wednesday, July 9th 2025 | 3:30-5:30 PM: BRASS w/ Mason Moy
Thursday, July 10th 2025 | 3:30-5:30 PM: WOODWINDS w/ Tyler Harper
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We believe that music education changes lives.
We strive to provide outstanding, high-quality programs at the most affordable prices, ensuring accessibility for everyone in our community.
If you would like to support this work, please consider making a one-time donation or becoming a monthly sustainer.
We are also here to help students who would not be able to enroll without some form of assistance. If your child would like to participate but it is not financially feasible, please contact us at info@scvyo.org and we will send you a Financial Assistance Form to fill out.