Steve Auerbach Email & Phone Number

Salt Lake City, Ut

SLAM: Salt Lake Academy of Music is a nonprofit, socially conscious music school that I co-founded in 2019. SLAM is a progression on the award-winning rock and blues programs offered by MusicGarage.Org that are now a part of SLAM in addition to classical, jazz, Americana, hip hop and electronic music programs. SLAM’s socially conscious vision provides instruments, lessons, performance, recording and touring programs for K-12 regardless of race, religion, gender, identity, orientation or socioeconomics. SLAM’s mission is to provide safe, effective and enduring music education through individual and group instruction, performances, recording and touring. SLAM will operate in the former MusicGarage.Org’s 1,800 sq ft state-of-the-art teaching facility and recording studios in Sugar House. SLAM seeks to actualize our vision by May 2020 to allow for free and sliding fee scale services by June 2020 starting with summer day camps.SLAM capitalizes on MusicGarage.Org's ten-year track record as Salt Lake County’s most award-winning music school, serving hundreds of youth from five Counties since 2009. The average MusicGarage.Org student performed as many as 24 festival, special event and venue shows a year and enrolled in the program for 3.25 years. Uniquely, MusicGarage.Org incubated student original bands that recorded and performed their original music at area festivals and venues. Thanks to a 2013-2019 fiscal sponsorship from the Utah Arts Alliance, as many as 44% of students received scholarship benefits during peak need years. As a free-standing nonprofit, SLAM can do more. SLAM donations at slamslc.org/donations or by mail at SLAM, 1192 Wilmington Avenue, Salt Lake City, UT 84106 are tax-deductible. While raising funds in Q4 2019, SLAM is seeking to expand its Board of Directors to help steer the organization toward success for years to come. If you are in a position to help with a donation or to get involved as a Board member, let’s talk!

Greater Salt Lake City Area

I founded MusicGarage.Org in 2009 to offer music students in the community, ages 11-17 performance and recording training. We also offer studio services for students, hobbyists and professionals such as Todd Rundgren, Jim Pugh, Taking Back Sunday, Cavedoll/Camden Chamberlain, Albin Lee Meldau (Sweden), Armed & Dangerous and many more.Uniquely, instead of hiring a lessons teacher staff, our award-winning after-school band programs coordinate with the community’s music teachers as an add-on service to private lessons. We believe in 'learning-by-doing' and that best to learn music is by playing music with others. Instead of hiring a lessons faculty, we partner with music teachers in the community. Students are empowered with both the craft and the confidence to do great things on-stage and in-life. Since 2009 our average student performs as many as 20 appearances/year at festivals, fairs and special events as well as smaller venue and restaurant shows for audiences that range from a handful to up to a few thousand people. Our students learn time management, goal-setting, teamwork, self-reliance, humility and service to others in a fun setting while becoming better musicians! We have incubated many bands in our 9 years, several of which wrote and recorded their own music produced by our staff, graduates or affiliates. Most importantly, we have taught our students the life lessons of what it means to be a good band mate; reliable, punctual, diligent, fun, generous and to be of service to others - all using rock, blues and jazz music as the vehicle for learning.

United States

Rock and Pop music ensemble Director responsible for organizing, rehearsing and directing a performance-based curriculum for this charter high school.

Greater Salt Lake City Area

I was the first national hire in this Philadelphia-based startup's national expansion. I developed and supervised five branches in Utah, Colorado, and Texas. I played a seminal role in the company's policy, procedure, marketing, and development. I designed and built facilities, faculty, enrollment, and set multiple award-winning benchmarks for quality programming, safety publicity, and enrollment.

Greater Salt Lake City Area

I created this record label for an artist on my Planet Agency roster, Ike Willis. Ike is best known for his performances on at least 30 Frank Zappa publications. I was booking Ike in North America, South America and Europe and his recordings were all out of print, so I got together with Grammy Award-winning producer, Douglas Spotted eagle CD and created "Ike Willis: Selected Works", a compilation of Ike's two earlier CDs.

Greater Salt Lake City Area

Director of Sales for this manufacturer of network-attached digital media appliances for government, education, institutions, military, industry and home use.

Greater Salt Lake City Area

International booking agency with roster that included members of Snoop Dogg, Wilco, Rat Dog, Frank Zappa, Jane's Addiction and P-Funk All-Stars.

Greater Salt Lake City Area

Founded this substance abuse risk reduction and lapse prevention program serving courts, corrections and legal professionals.

Greater Salt Lake City Area

Substance abuse assessment and referral services for this psychiatric and substance abuse hospital.

Greater Salt Lake City Area

Rock radio host, part time.

Malibu, Ca

Hybrid, analog and digital synthesizer programming under legendary Motown producer, Harry Balk. Development of music and musical acts.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Hybrid, analog and digital synthesizer programming, sound design and session playing for Los Angeles-based recording artists and producers.

Counseling Certificate, Substance Abuse/Addiction Counseling, 3.9

Substance Abuse Counseling Certificate Program

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Music, 3.8

- Assistant Manager of Electronic Music Laboratory - Teaching Assistant to the Dr. Vladimir Ussachevsky - Teaching Assistant to Dr. Tracey.

Diploma, Music Theory And Composition

Activities and Societies: WISE: Woodlands Individualized Senior ExperienceRecruited a 24-piece band that I wrote, arranged, rehearsed.