Stephen Webber
Stephen Webberis an Emmy-winning composer, musician, author, speaker, producer/engineer, and a leading innovator in music and the performing arts. Stephen currently serves as Dean of Strategic Initiatives for Berklee College of Music , and Executive Director of BerkleeNYC, where he oversees the iconic Power Station recording studios, hosting sessions for Wynton and Brandford Marsalis, Esperanza Spalding, Jon Batiste, Jacob Collier, and hundreds of other artists. Recently, Stephen has been serving as A&Rconsultant for the Universal Music Group . He’s produced and engineered albums for a wide-range of artists, including a collaboration with DJ Premier and Nas for the Re:Generations Music Project, a film Stephen appeared in alongside Erica Badu, Skrillex, Mos Def, Pretty Lights, and the Doors.
Almost fifty thousand students are enrolled in Stephen’s Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) The Art of Music Production . In 2014, Webber founded the Music Production, Technology and Innovation Master’s program at Berklee’s Valencia Campus , where he also served as CTO. Music Production Analysis , Webber’s course for Berklee Music Online , won 2010’s international “Best Online Course Award” from the University Continuing Education Association.
Webber is the composer and turntable soloist of the Stylus Symphony , a groundbreaking work that combines a full orchestra with hip-hop, trip-hop and dubstep. Webber authored Turntable Technique: The Art of the DJ, the first book to teach the turntable as a musical instrument, and he founded Berklee’s DJ and turntablism classes, which are considered to be the first to be offered by a college of music.
As a musician, Webber has toured China, Australia, Europe, Central America and the US, and has appeared on CNN, NBC, NPR and CBS, and in the New York Times and Rolling Stone Magazine.
His innovative teaching has helped propel his students to the top of the international music charts-garnering multi-platinum records and Grammy awards in pop, rock, hip-hop, jazz, country, bluegrass, folk, K-Pop, classical and Latin categories.
A multi-instrumentalist who often contributes guitars, keyboards, banjo, mandolin and turntables to his productions, Stephen has recorded with Mark O’Connor, Kathy Mattea and Meshell Ndegeocello, and performed with Bela Fleck, Grandmixer DXT, and Emmylou Harris.
Webber has designed several recording studios, conducted film scores at Lucasfilm’s Skywalker Ranch, and authored dozens of articles and cover stories for Mix Magazine, Re-Mix and Electronic Musician.