Founders (foundation)

Christopher Wight and David Alexander met while working for an established music school in Hollywood California where they served as department heads, instructors, career advisors, and developed cutting edge courses and curriculum. They balanced their educational pursuits with a good dose of real-world experiences, touring with major artists, scoring video games, movie trailers and producing dance records for world class DJ’s and more.

It was thru these experiences as educators, successful artists and producers that Wight and Alexander realized the need for a place like Icon Collective, a place where aspiring artists and producers could truly embrace their creativity, a place where technology and creativity collided with a 21st century approach to living successful artistic lifestyles within today’s brave new music industry. A place that would serve to educate, inspire, and breed the next

generation of empowered artists and producers.

In 2004, Wight and Alexander founded Icon Collective, and today IC is recognized by the Grammy’s as having one of the most innovative and forward thinking approaches and curriculum within music production education. “The goal is for people to wake up in the morning and make a living doing what they love. That’s bliss. And here at Icon, we let them know its possible.” – Christopher Wight

Today, Christopher and David continue to have an impact on all that is music. They both contribute and write articles on Technology and Creativity for major publications such as BPM magazine and Recording Magazine. They continue to produce commercial music for top video games, movies, and TV as well as actively produce records within all genres of music. They are an inspiration to their students and continue to educate thru example.

Their latestendeavor, developing music production courses and seminars for the new Grammy Museum will allow IC’s philosophy and approach to resonate with some of the 50,000 youth expected to visit the Grammy Museum in 2009, helping to inspire the next generation of artists and producers.