Funding for the development of Artists House Music has been provided by the Herb Alpert Foundation. The foundation devised the idea for an online, non-profit musicians’ Website where all musicians can receive informational support, guidance, and expert resources to help them navigate the challenges and maximize the opportunities available to them within the music industry.
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John Snyder
John Snyder is the founder and president of the Artists House Foundation, a nonprofit music company dedicated to creating educational presentations in several areas, including instruction for instruments, master classes, careers in the arts, and legendary performers. In addition to his producing career, Snyder has held positions at the upper levels of many major recording companies. As the assistant to the president of CTI Records, Creed Taylor, Snyder oversaw legal and business affairs, publishing, manufacturing, distribution, and artists and repertoire operations. Under the tutelage of Herb Alpert, he served as director of Horizon Jazz Series for A&M Records. Snyder later served as director of jazz production for Atlantic Records, where his responsibilities included production and packaging, promotion, publicity, and marketing. Snyder is currently a member of the New York Bar. As a former member of the New York Chapter of the The Recording Academy, he served on the Board of Governors, Education Committee, and Grammy in the Schools Committee. He has been with the Loyola University New Orleans College of Music faculty since 2004.
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George Howard
Producer and musician George Howard founded his first independent label, Slow River Records, in 1993. In 1995, Slow River entered into a co-venture with Rykodisc, one of the world's largest independent labels. In 1999, he became president of Rykodisc where he signed and/or guided the careers of artists such as Kelly Willis, Robert Cray, Josh Rouse, Kelly Joe Phelps, Jess Klein, The Slip, Catie Curtis, the Tom Tom Club, Future Bible Heroes, Chuck E. Weiss and many others, as well as further developed Rykodisc's catalog holdings including, Frank Zappa, Medeski Martin & Wood, Morphine, The Tradition Catalog, Bill Hicks, Richard Buckner, and others. His production credits include Kelly Joe Phelps, Chuck E. Weiss (with Tom Waits), Jess Klein, Matthew, and Peter Bruntnell. He is currently an Assistant Professor and Executive in Residence in the College of Business Administration at Loyola University. He has taught at Berklee College of Music, Northeastern University, the University of Massachusetts, and is a frequent lecturer at other learning institutions. Additionally, Howard is a director for numerous music companies. Howard has written a number of books on the music industry, including: Getting Signed! An Insider's Guide to the Record Industry (Berklee Press), Music Publishing 101 (Berklee Press).
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Mike King
Mike King is the Managing Editor of Artistshousemusic.org. Mike is also the Marketing Communications Manager at Berkleemusic, the online extension school of Berklee College of Music. At Berkleemusic, Mike is responsible for the day to day marketing of Berkleemusic's online music courses and coordinates all design, copywriting, editing, positioning, sponsorships and affiliate partnerships as well as management of yearly advertising buys and coordination of publicity and copywriting contractors. Prior to his position at Berklee, Mike was the Marketing Manager and Product Manager at Rykodisc, where he oversaw all marketing efforts for label artists including Mickey Hart, Jeb Loy Nichols, Morphine, Jess Klein, Voices On The Verge, Bill Hicks, The Slip, Pork Tornado (Phish), Kelly Joe Phelps and Frank Zappa’s estate. Mike is a regular contributor to Making Music magazine, and has been quoted in The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, and Muso. He is also a course writer and class leader for online music and business courses at CNET Networks. In his spare time Mike consults for local bands and plays guitar for the Boston-based supergroup The P. James Magic Show.
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Debbie Cavalier
Debbie Cavalier, Dean of Continuing Education at Berklee College of Music's online extension school, Berkleemusic. Cavalier leads the development of Berklee's award-winning distance learning courses and is a frequent speaker at national distance learning conferences. A trained musician, seasoned publishing professional, and music educator, Cavalier has produced many educational publications and instructional DVDs for Berklee Press and Warner Bros. Publications. A prolific author, Cavalier has penned over one hundred music education publications and arrangements. Cavalier graduated with honors from Berklee College of Music, holds Master's degree in Education from Cambridge College, and continues to further her studies in business and distance learning. She is also an active children's music artist with Debbie and Friends.
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Randy Funke
Randy Funke is the website and multimedia programmer as well as the system administrator for the Artists House website. He is based in Norwalk, Connecticut where other responsibilities include work as a recording engineer and video editor for many of the Artists House media projects. He is a musician as well, and plays guitar in his band, King for a Day. In addition, he is a studio engineer and consultant for Mavericks Recording in New York and the Clubhouse Studio in Westport CT. He has worked extensively on a variety of successful recordings and DVDs over the last five years and has worked closely with many well known producers and engineers in the Rock and Jazz genres. He has been with Artists House since 2002.
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Sarah Hellems
Sarah Hellems works as a graphic designer and video editor for Artists House. She is a native of Charlotte, North Carolina and has a degree in Digital Media from Full Sail. Sarah currently resides in Nashville, where she plays guitar in the band Rend the Heavens. You can check out her online portfolio at www.credocreative.com. She has been with Artists House since 2004.
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Matt Hellems
Matt Hellems takes care of a lot of the video editing for the site. He is a graduate of Full Sail, with degrees in Recording and Show Production. He currently lives in Nashville, where he does live audio for many national artists. Matt also plays bass in the band Rend the Heavens.
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Ben Snyder
Ben Snyder is the president of Little Wing Marketing and a touring lecturer on technology issues. He's worked in the music business for a management and marketing firm and worked on marketing campaigns for Radiohead, The Black Crowes, The Calling, The Strokes, The Vines, Yellowcard, Flickerstick, Gov't Mule, American Hi-Fi, OK Go, Busta Rhymes, Derek Trucks Band, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, among others. In 2003, along with John Snyder, he co-authored a letter to the NARAS Board of Directors that was published on salon.com as "Embrace file sharing, or die".
When detached from his computer he can be found roaming the streets with his longboard skateboard or rocking out on Guitar Hero 3 or Rock Band.
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Tessa Copping
Tessa Copping is a native of Kansas City, Missouri and graduated with a Bachelor in Music in Music Industry Studies from Loyola University New Orleans in 2005. She is a violinist and played with the Loyola University Chamber and Symphony Orchestras while at Loyola. She has interned with Fox Music, Inc., The Kansas City Symphony, Hard Rock Café, Music America Promotions, and Beuerman Miller Fitzgerald, an advertising and public relations firm in New Orleans. Tessa has worked with Artists House since January 2006 and is co-managing editor of the Artists House website. She is currently pursuing her Masters in Counseling and Personnel Services at Fordham University in New York City.
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Aaron Sternke
Aaron Sternke works as a video producer and editor for Artists House. He is a graduate of Full Sail with a degree in Recording Arts, and in addition to his work for Artists House he is a music producer and engineer. Since moving to Nashville in 2004, Aaron has worked closely in the recording studio with producer Brown Bannister, and through Brown has worked with Amy Grant, Vince Gill, Mercy Me, Third Day, and many others. Aaron also fronts a band called Rend The Heavens, which is comprised of other Artists House staff Sarah Hellems, Matt Hellems, and Luke Simpson.
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Luke Simpson
Luke Simpson is a video editor for Artists House. He graduated cum laude with a Bachelor in Music with emphases in Theory and Composition and Percussion Performance from Hillsdale College in 2004. He currently holds down the throne for Rend the Heavens and is dabbling in film scoring. Other than that, he loves parkour, people, laughing, trying to read books, Netflix, writing songs, and snow.
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