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Our goal are to provide direct access to working industry professionals and meaningful pathways into internships and professional work.

By way of introduction, I am Professor Stevo Evans, Director of Commercial Music at 麻豆社区app. Alongside my academic leadership, I remain actively engaged in the commercial music industry as a music producer, arranger, musical director, and entrepreneur. I have been incredibly blessed to work across major tours, television productions, and albums, with current work involving artists such as Kanye West, Rihanna, and Sabrina Carpenter and the this year to name a few.

When I assumed leadership of the Commercial Music program this past academic year, one of my primary goals was to ensure that our students would not have to wait until graduation to encounter the real industry. We have been intentional about bringing the industry into the classroom and placing our students inside the rooms where professional work is actually happening.

This year alone, our students attended rehearsals for Charlie Puth, observing live workflows across vocals, band, engineering, and production. During that experience, one of our own background vocalists was invited to and learn repertoire in real time.

We鈥檝e also hosted a full Production simulation experience with four highly accomplished professionals:

• Harmony Samuels, producer for artists including Chris Brown
• A-Rod, songwriter for Ariana Grande
• IRKO, mixing engineer for The Weeknd
• Matt Ciancimino of Interscope Records

Rather than simply speaking to students, they created a song from beginning to end in front of them. Harmony produced the track, A-Rod wrote to it, IRKO shaped the mix, and Matt explained what it would take to position and release the record commercially. Click for some highlights.

Our engineering students have also learned directly from Kyle Hamilton, front-of house engineer for Doja Cat. He worked with students on the same signal flow, mixing decisions, and problem-solving approaches required on major festival and stadium stages.

The internship and professional-placement side of the program has been equally active.

Through the internship partnership between CBU and several of my industry partners, students are interviewed and placed in active industry environments. One student interned with our team while supporting a stadium production at SoFi Stadium. Another worked as a drum-tech intern on Tate McRae鈥檚 tour. Three of our students contributed to the 2025 Disney Holiday Special, with their work reaching a national television audience.

One of our students has also contributed music to a Gucci advertisement produced in Los Angeles, and six students were recently selected to serve as engineers and production interns for a major live production with in 2026.

These are not simulations or classroom exercises. They are real professional environments with real expectations, relationships, deadlines, and stakes.

In addition to direct placements, I personally curate internship and employment opportunities for Commercial Music students through my industry network.

We are also developing longer-term professional pipelines in live sound, music business, tour management, and entertainment production. Our goal is not simply to create impressive isolated moments. It is to build sustainable pathways that allow students to move from the classroom into real industry environments with confidence, preparation, and professional credibility.

We want our students to leave CBU with more than a degree. We want them to leave having developed their craft, learned how to lead and collaborate under pressure, built authentic professional relationships, and ultimately to enter rooms they once imagined were years away.