Foothill College is located in the San Francisco Bay Area, one of the world's most beautiful metropolitan areas
- a center of music, art and technology

Now in his 20th year at Foothill, Mark developed the Music Technology Program, wrote most of the curriculum, and is now spearheading our online degree offerings. He teaches Music Business, Music & Media, and Sibelius (digital notation) among other classes. He has performed and recorded with artists such as Jimmy Buffet, Burt Bacharach, The Temptations, Ray Charles, Mel Torme', Arturo Sandoval, Carl Fontana, and many others. He was awarded a California Music Award in 1999 for the World Beat Album of the Year (recorded and produced in Foothill's studio) and "Innovator of the Year" in 1997 for developing the Music Technology Program.

Scott was one of the first students in our music technology program and returns to us after completing his B.A. Scott is an accomplished singer/songwriter and has worked on many recording projects as a vocalist, engineer, producer, writer and arranger. Scott currently teaches songwriting at Foothill and is also the music director at the Orchard Community Church in Campbell. Scott brings a wealth of experience and an unparalleled enthusiasm for music and song to our program and we are very happy to welcome him as one of our newest adjunct faculty member.

Suzanne Weller, Media Studies, Production
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Our newest Faculty member, Suzanne brings a wealth of real world experience in performing, recording and teaching to her classes. Suzanne holds a B.A. in Music Performance from San Jose State University as well as a Certificate of Achievement in Music Technology. She has had years of advanced training in jazz and flute performance from Stanford University and Cabrillo College and has written her own interactive music theory and composition workbook called "Musicreation". Suzanne has been the recording engineer, producer and performer on 4 of her 5 CDs and has worked 8 years as an assistant on recording and video projects at Highland Studio in Los Gatos, California. Suzanne has also composed and recorded incidental music for theater productions in Saratoga, CA, ambient background music for meditation CDs and most recently back up tracks for GRL Computing commercials and singer/songwriter, Diann Klink.

R.J. Ward, Sound Design for Film & Video

R.J. Ward comes to Foothill by way of UC Irvine, where he taught Sound Design, Video Production and other digital media courses for 5 years. Since graduating from the UCLA Film School, he has worked in the film industry as a director, screenwriter, sound editor and session guitarist. He wrote the script for “The James Dean Garage Band”, a feature film set in the early years of rock ‘n roll that will be shot next year in British Columbia with T-Bone Burnett producing the soundtrack.  He has recently performed as a member of Running With Scissors, an L.A.-based alt-rock project. 

Mike Sult, Recording Arts
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Mike received his BA and MA degrees from San Jose State University and has been an instructor at Foothill since 1981, teaching music courses including Jazz Improvisation, Guitar, MIDI and Music Theory. He has performed throughout the Bay Area for the last 25 years in various groups (or solo) in a variety of styles including Classical, Jazz, Rock and Pop. In addition to being fortunate enough to make a living doing something he loves (playing and teaching music), he has a strong infatuation with computers and related topics such as programming.