There’s a moment when a beat drops, a lyric lands, or a camera catches something honest and electric.

This camp lives in that moment.This summer, step inside a professional recording studio in Downtown Winston-Salem and learn the art and science behind audio recording, video production, songwriting, and digital content creation.

Mixxer is partnering with Bill Stevens and Ovation Sound to offer an immersive, hands-on experience led by Grammy-nominated professionals who’ve worked in the rooms where real records are made.

Campers won’t just talk about creativity. They’ll press record.

What Students Will Learn 
 - Studio signal flow and microphone techniques
 - Recording vocals and instruments
 - Beat production and basic music arrangement
 - Songwriting structure and lyric development
 - Video capture and editing fundamentals
 - Content creation for today’s digital platforms

From tracking vocals in a sound booth to building a song from scratch, students will experience the full creative process from idea to final product.

Instructor: Bill Stevens was born at a very early age to a musical family – father, James William Stevens, is a composer; mother, Carolyn Dorff, a singer of opera and musical theater; and sister, Becca Stevens, is a well known performer and composer.

He studied guitar at Berklee College of Music, composition with Ken Frazelle at the North Carolina School of the Arts and Music Business, focusing in the Recording Arts and minoring in Portuguese at Winston-Salem State University. While at WSSU he won the concerto competition and performed Mozart’s Piano Concerto K. 466. He recently earned an MFA in composition from Vermont College of Fine Arts, where he studied music composition with Tamar Diesendruck, John Mallia, and Roger Zahab.

In 2007, he joined forces with Evan Richey and Ovation Sound and since has been involved in numerous projects in various ways – as producer, engineer, composer, arranger, performer, and educator. He has produced records in a plethora of genres: classical, jazz, gospel, R&B, bluegrass, heavy metal, folk, Americana, rock, and musical theater. His favorite project is the project he is working on right now. No session is too big or too small.

There’s a moment when a beat drops, a lyric lands, or a camera catches something honest and electric.

This camp lives in that moment.This summer, step inside a professional recording studio in Downtown Winston-Salem and learn the art and science behind audio recording, video production, songwriting, and digital content creation.

Mixxer is partnering with Bill Stevens and Ovation Sound to offer an immersive, hands-on experience led by Grammy-nominated professionals who’ve worked in the rooms where real records are made.

Campers won’t just talk about creativity. They’ll press record.

What Students Will Learn 
 - Studio signal flow and microphone techniques
 - Recording vocals and instruments
 - Beat production and basic music arrangement
 - Songwriting structure and lyric development
 - Video capture and editing fundamentals
 - Content creation for today’s digital platforms

From tracking vocals in a sound booth to building a song from scratch, students will experience the full creative process from idea to final product.

Instructor: Bill Stevens was born at a very early age to a musical family – father, James William Stevens, is a composer; mother, Carolyn Dorff, a singer of opera and musical theater; and sister, Becca Stevens, is a well known performer and composer.

He studied guitar at Berklee College of Music, composition with Ken Frazelle at the North Carolina School of the Arts and Music Business, focusing in the Recording Arts and minoring in Portuguese at Winston-Salem State University. While at WSSU he won the concerto competition and performed Mozart’s Piano Concerto K. 466. He recently earned an MFA in composition from Vermont College of Fine Arts, where he studied music composition with Tamar Diesendruck, John Mallia, and Roger Zahab.

In 2007, he joined forces with Evan Richey and Ovation Sound and since has been involved in numerous projects in various ways – as producer, engineer, composer, arranger, performer, and educator. He has produced records in a plethora of genres: classical, jazz, gospel, R&B, bluegrass, heavy metal, folk, Americana, rock, and musical theater. His favorite project is the project he is working on right now. No session is too big or too small.