Jennifer Hruska

Jennifer Hruska brings a diverse set of skills and experience to Berklee as a musician, electronic instrument designer, and business entrepreneur. Early in her career, she was as a sound designer for Kurzweil Music Systems, designing their award-winning K2000 series of music synthesizers and working with industry greats such as Ray Kurzweil, Bob Moog, Robert Chidlaw, and Hal Chamberlin.

Later, Hruska founded and operated SONiVOX, an audio technology company producing software MIDI synthesizers, virtual instruments, and sample libraries for professional audio software products and embedded consumer products. SONiVOX technology reached hundreds of millions of customers when its products were embedded in Google, Motorola, Samsung, and other mobile devices. In 2012, Hruska sold SONiVOX to inMusic Brands, where she served as vice president of software engineering and content development for the company’s iconic brands Akai Professional, M-Audio, Alesis, and others. In 2016, she left inMusic to cofound 2getheraudio, makers of software synthesizers and effects plugins for musicians and audio professionals.

As a musician, Hruska was a member of D’Cuckoo, an electro-acoustic performance group based in San Francisco, California, in the 1990s. The band was known for its interactive performances, live graphics, and handmade electronic instruments. Later, she composed, produced, and performed The Underground Forest, a musical project and CD inspired by the writing of Clarissa Estés’s best-selling book Women Who Run with the Wolves. Hruska is an active jazz pianist and keyboardist in Boston, Massachusetts–based ensembles and an active composer and sound designer for theater productions, contemporary classical ensembles, and other electro-acoustic music projects.