Stoyan Stefanov

Stoyan Stefanov leads a double life as a musician and a technologist in Los Angeles. In technology, he has twenty years of experience at the forefront of web programming and web performance in companies including Facebook, Yahoo!, and SAP. As a thought leader and inventor, he has published about a dozen programming books and spoken at countless conferences around the world. During his tech career, Stoyan has also played in several rock bands as a guitarist and songwriter, but it wasn't until Fall 2016 that he got serious about the art and craft of music. He started taking classes at Santa Monica College and the University of California, Los Angeles, in music theory, composition, conducting, orchestration, guitar, piano, viola, and more. 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: to write orchestral music worthy of performance by the Los Angeles Philharmonic. At the intersection of technology and music, Stoyan created and maintains onlinemusictools.com, a free website for learning and improving the musicianship and theory skills of music students and practitioners.