James Mooy is a native Santa Barbaran and Santa Barbara City College alumnus. He holds music and education degrees from U.C.L.A. (B.A. and M.A.). His trumpet performance studies have been with Jimmy Valves, Ron Thompson, Tony Plog, and Mario Guarnerri. A Music Academy of the West Alumnus, he has toured the U.S. and Japan as a professional trumpet player. James taught the band and orchestra program R. A. Millikan High School in Long Beach for five years. During that time he freelanced regularly in the Los Angeles area and held a full-time position as a Disneyland musician. Mr. Mooy currently conducts the Good Times Jazz Ensemble, Beginning Instrument Techniques, and Symphony Orchestra at Santa Barbara City College. Additional teaching duties include Fundamentals of Music, Electronic Music /Sound Recording, and Audio/Video for Multimedia classes. He has served as an adjudicator for numerous solo, chamber, wind ensemble, string ensemble, and jazz ensemble festivals. As well as adjudicating, he served as conductor for the 2000 North Santa Barbara County Jr. High Honor Band, and the Santa Barbara Schools Jr. High Honor Band.

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1. Electronic Music Instructor James Mooy performing his original composition "Home" (554K)
   James performed his piece playing the Akia EVI wind controller live on stage. For the introduction (614K), the EVI sound module was used to trigger chords on a Proteus II Orchestral Sound Module. Accompanying James were Josephine Brummel on the Yamaha MIDI Grand Piano triggering a Korg M1, Anthony Ybarra on electric bass, Dan Christensen on drums, and Kevin Vasquez on congas.