Stoyan Stefanov

Stoyan Stefanov is a composer and multi-instrumentalist living in Los Angeles, California. He leads a double life as a musician and a technologist. On the technology side he has 20 years of experience on the forefront of web programming and web performance in companies such as Facebook, Yahoo!, and SAP. As a thought leader and inventor he has published about a dozen programming books and has spoken at countless conferences around the world.During his time in technology Stoyan has also played in several rock bands as a guitarist and songwriter but it wasn't until the Fall of 2016 when he got serious about the art and craft of music. He started taking classes at Santa Monica College and University of California, Los Angeles in music theory, composition, conducting, orchestration, guitar, piano, viola and so on. Always curious, Stoyan is enchanted by anything and everything to do with music, from soldering audio gear to composing concert music, from collaborating with musicians on a song to recording, mixing and releasing it. He has a single-item bucket list: write orchestral music of quality worthy to be performed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic.On the intersection of technology and music, Stoyan builds and maintains onlinemusictools.com - a free website for learning and improving the musicianship of music students and practitioners.