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Lisa Bella Donna is an internationally acclaimed composer, recording artist, clinician, and modular synthesist.

She’s highly regarded as a virtuoso musician and performer. She is brand ambassador for Moog Music Inc. Providing a wide variety of inspiring and educational content for them. Including live performance videos and composing modular and multi-timbral patches and sound design for their many books, manuals, and firmware updates.

She’s worked closely with other manufacturers such as Yamaha, Mellotron, Novation, & EarthQuaker Devices. As both a product consultant and demonstrator.

Lisa is featured in the upcoming Kim Bjørn publication entitled, “Patch & Tweak with Moog”. In the book Lisa unveils many aspects of her process and extensive techniques with modular synthesis. Lisa was also featured in Kim Bjørns’ “Pedal Crush”, where she talks about implementing effects pedals with synthesizers.

She recently was invited to headline the opening of the Bob Moog Foundation in Asheville, North Carolina. She conducted an electronic music worship as well as performed a closing 90 minute set for the event. Along with longtime Moog pioneers: Herbert Deutsch, Patrick Moraz and Larry Fast. In 2019 she also embarked a full Japan tour as a solo artist with Boris, Crypt City, and Relaxer. She also collaborated with Chicago’s Reverb.com on a video called “Choosing a Moog Synthesizer”.

Lisa conducts clinics and concerts at many universities around the world including a recent 2020 Summer residence at Berklee School of Music in Boston.

She’s worked many years as a multi-instrumentalist and recording engineer. Covering a wide variety of music and artists. Including jazz drumming with avant-garde jazz & classical pianist Simone Weißenfels from Leipzig. Where the two recorded and toured extensively throughout Europe and USA. She was a founding member, composer, and multi-instrumentalist of EYE who released 4 LPs until disbanding in 2019.

Lisa currently composes & records several albums a year while simultaneously teaching and homeschooling her daughter from her home and private studio in the Appalachian Mountains.