Music Industry Studies Faculty

Program Director, Music Industry Studies

Multi-platinum award winning engineer, producer and musician, Jamison Weddle, has worked with major-label artists ranging from SoulFly to DMX.
After graduating from The Recording Workshop in Ohio, Jamison came back to his home state of Arizona. He soon began working as an engineer for one of the state’s leading sound recording facilities, Chaton Studios, where he gained the opportunity to work on projects like DMX’s albums “Grand Champ” & “The Great Depression.”

Over the years Jamison has also worked on projects including artists: SoulFly, Kenny Rogers, Nils Lofgren, Joey Defrancesco, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Dave Grohl’s Probot, David Crosby and Grahm Nash, Willie Nelson, Caesar Bach, and many more.

Courses Taught: Studio Music Recording I-III, Audio Mixing Techniques
 

Department Chair, Fine & Performing Arts
Music Program Director
Coordinator of Music Theory, Composition, and Music Technology Studies

While primarily a composer of chamber works and intermedia pieces, Dr. Schindler has received numerous commissions from the Western Illinois University Theatre Department for music for their Mainstage productions, including Life is a Dream, The Tempest, Comedy of Errors, The Shadow Box, and many others), and from Phoenix College’s Theatre Program (Blood Wedding, Measure for Measure, She Kills Monsters, and others). In addition, he has been the resident music director for PC’s musical theatre productions since 2011.

Dr. Schindler’s primary focus is the exploration of the theatrical side of concert music. To this end, he has created intermedia pieces that incorporate multiple slide projectors, lighting effects, and require a certain level of theatrics from the musicians involved. His first piece in this “multimedia cantata” genre, the enthusiastically received The War Poems, used five slide projectors with hundreds of World War I era photos, synchronized to his musical setting of poems by Siegfried Sassoon. The second large-scale work in this genre was based on texts from Edgar Lee Master's Spoon River Anthology, entitled Ghost Voices: Songs from a Cemetery.

Karl Schindler has won Distinguished Teaching Awards from Phoenix College and Arizona State University.

Courses Taught: Music Theory, Aural Perception, Electronic Music I-III, Sound Synthesis, Sound Design, Survey of Broadway Musicals, Music Composition private instruction
Degrees: BM, University of North Texas; MM, University of North Texas; DMA, Arizona State University

Mike Bolenbach is a music producer and audio engineer with more than 30 years experience, as well as the owner of Full Well Recording Studio in Phoenix AZ. Music production and audio recording are his passions and he brings that excitement into every session. Mike has worked in one capacity or another with mega producers and platinum selling artists such as Bob Ezrin, Rupert Hine, Bobby Taylor, Alice Cooper, Kiss, Slash, Steve Hunter, Don Felder, Joan Jett, and many more.

Courses Taught: Studio Music Recording I, Digital Audio Workstation

Patrick Driscoll is a Front of House engineer, recording engineer, musician, and educator with over 20 years of experience working in the music industry.  He has toured and produced live events across the United States, as well as internationally with artists such as Alice Cooper, Joan Jett, Bad Religion, NOFX, Xzibit, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, Johnny Depp, Gin Blossoms, Blue Oyster Cult, and KISS. A professor of Live Sound and Stage Technology for five years, Patrick is active in the industry working on local and regional concert productions. As an advocate for collaboration, positivity, and teamwork, he values inclusivity and diversity as a major part of his production teams. 

Courses Taught: Live Sound Reinforcement I-III

Matt Kirkpatrick was born and raised in San Diego, CA. He has been in the Marketing and Promotions Department of the Radio Industry for over 20 years, starting at Q106, Channel 93.3, and Magic 92.5. Kirkpatrick moved to Phoenix in November of 2000 to work at KKFR/Power 92.3 where he spent seven years as a Promotions Coordinator and later Promotions Director, also hosting an underground hip hop show called “Friday Night Flavas.” In 2007, Kirkpatrick left Power 98.3 to work at KZON/101.5 Jamz as the Marketing and Promotions Director for two years and started another underground hip hop show called “Rhyme and Reason.” He also worked as the Promotions Director for KAJM/Mega 104.3 and KNRJ/101.1 The Beat as well as in Artist Management and DJ’ing all over the Valley.

Courses Taught: Music Business, Music Industry Entrepreneurship, Self Promotion for Music