Masha Lepire is a Seattle based composer, sound designer, and conductor. She began her video game music career by founding the Video Game Orchestra and Choir at UCLA when she was a classical guitar performance major. The VGOC got to perform for Nobuo Uematsu which was Masha's first Final Fantasy music collaboration event. Masha now runs a similar ensemble in Seattle in addition to performing and composing for video games and other forms of visual media.