Maestra Classes Offered
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Refining Your Pop Song: First Draft to Final
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Writing a Pop/Rock Theater Song
Ada Westfall
Biography
Ada Westfall is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, performer, and trans-rights activist. She is an Associate Artist with Theater Mitu and The Civilians and has composed/arranged music for NAATCO, Built For Collapse, NYU, NYU Abu Dhabi, and University of the Arts. Composer/Arranger: A Play On War (Connelly Theater; Drama Desk nomination), Juárez: A Documentary Mythology (Rattlestick), Rimbaud in New York (BAM). Onstage musician: Joan of Arc: Into the Fire (Public), The Last Goodbye (Old Globe), Death of a Salesman (BAM). Actor: Rimbaud in New York (BAM), Songbird (59E59), Remnant (Mitu580). BFA: NYU Tisch.
Professional Experience
- Off Broadway
- Regional
- Concerts/Cabaret
- Education
Regions
- NYC/Tri-State Area
- LA/Southern California
Maestra Expertise
- Theatrical Composer (Music and Lyrics)
- Theatrical Composer (Music only)
- Theatrical Lyricist
- Theatrical Bookwriter
- Music Director/Conductor (Baton)
- Songwriter
- Singer/Songwriter
- Orchestrator
- Vocal Arranger
- Incidental Music Composer/Arranger
- Instrumentalist/Pit Musician
- Sound Designer/Composer
- Music Producer/Record Producer
Primary Instruments
- Bass - Double/Electric
- Drums
- Guitar - acoustic
- Guitar - electric
- Mandolin
- Percussion
- Synthesizer
- Ukulele
- Voice
Software
- Ableton
- Finale
- GarageBand
- Logic
- MainStage
- Pro-Tools
Affiliations
- ACTORS EQUITY ASSOCIATION (AEA)
- THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF MUSICIANS (AFM)