Handmaid Music is a bespoke audio production, music supervision and film scoring house headquartered in Los Angeles, New Mexico and New York under the creative guidance of guitarist, composer and MD Lily Maase.
We are a small, hands-on operation equipped to walk you through every part of the music and sound production process. From selecting pre-recorded music, to composing and recording a fully-orchestrated film score, to mixing everything together in post, Handmaid Music is available to work closely with you on every sonic detail from conception to final product in a variety of fields.
Recent Clients include: Sparkles Entertainment (film), California Institute of the Arts, Jordan Von Haslow (artist), Lisa Lucas (film)
" ... a composer of powerful originality."
John Zorn, Tzadik Records
About the Owner
Guitarist, composer, arranger and musical director Lily Maase was born in Corrales, New Mexico and educated at the University of North Texas and California Institute of the Arts. She is the daughter of session guitarist and educator Steve Maase (1946-2016), whose roots in the industry date back to the era of Buddy Holly and the legendary Norman Petty Studios in Clovis, NM.
After nearly fifteen years spent working in New York as a performer, educator and bandleader, the #metoo movement inspired Lily to return to her birthplace in order to speak safely and freely about the challenges of being a freelance female musician in a male-dominated field. Her writing on the subject, “Playing While Female,” went viral to the highest levels of the music industry, was quoted in O Magazine, and has been the subject of multiple panel discussions within the world of jazz and academic music.
Lily is currently serving as faculty in the Experimental Pop specialization at the California Institute of the Arts, where she teaches remote production practices, music theory in the oral tradition, and applied guitar.