DJ Cassandra is an Austin-based artist: DJ, composer/producer, pianist, educator, and all-around creative. She grew up between Texas and London, and is a big believer in community and collaboration. She’s brought her unique open format sound to events for Sports Illustrated, Gucci, Goldman Sachs, NASCAR, Teen Vogue, Google, Bumble, Apple TV+, US Women’s Volleyball Team, SXSW, Adidas, Kendra Scott, Dell, NBC, Virgin, The Recording Academy, Tito’s Vodka, Franklin’s BBQ, (and that’s just to name a few) performing for virtual audiences of 18,000 to in-person audiences of 50,000 to national audiences of millions. DJ Cassandra has opened and closed for Chromeo, Classixx, Portugal The Man, Blake Shelton, Darius Rucker, Daughtry, Matoma, Amtrak, LP Giobbi, RUN DMC, Ezra Ray Hart (supergroup of Better Than Ezra, Sugar Ray, and Tonic), Angel and Dren, Win Butler (DJ Windows98) of Arcade Fire, Kishi Bashi, Sol Rising, Midland, Charley Crockett, Goldfish and Sheryl Crow / Joe Ely ACL Hall of Fame opening party. She curated playlists for clients from Lululemon to Hulu to Topo Chico and Tito’s Vodka. As a pianist, she’s played and recorded with musicians from local indie-rock artist Ben Kweller to DEVO’s frontman Mark Mothersbaugh and jazz trombonist Wycliffe Gordon at Lincoln Center.

As a composer she has been recognized for orchestration, composition, and music preparation work in award-winning films featuring directors and actors such as Terrence Malick, Martin Sheen, and Natalie Portman. She also composes music for Biomedical Music Solutions, music to help patients with neurological conditions learn how or regain the ability to walk. The Biomedical Music (™) she has composed is advancing the applications of music-assisted rehabilitation and has produced life-changing results for over 3 million global users and counting. Cassie has spoken as an official SXSW panelist in 2022 with The Recording Academy’s MusiCares, Headspace and Berklee College of Music on music as a tool for healing. She also spoke in 2017 about her work with Biomedical Music Solutions and was honored as a SXSW 2018 Interactive Innovation Award finalist.

She was recently elected as one of the youngest Governors on the Texas Chapter Recording Academy’s board for 2023-2025. As a proponent for music education, Cassie has been an active member with the Recording Academy’s Texas Chapter Education committee for 6 years and counting, and is also a 4-time featured speaker for Grammy Career Day. She recently joined the Songwriter and Composer committee this year as well. In addition, she co-founded the web-app Picardy focused on helping anyone develop music theory and musicianship skills. She is a multi-year mentor for The University of Texas at Austin’s Bridging Disciplines Program, and has been a featured volunteer speaker at multiple universities such as Claflin University’s Music Department to SMU’s Meadows School for the Arts Music Pedagogy and Theory Department to The University of Texas at Austin’s Department of Arts and Entertainment Technologies Gender, Race, and Technologies class. 

As an educator and consultant, Cassie works on various TV/Film productions as a music performance coach. Her work has been featured in shows such as Walker Texas Ranger (Season 2 and 3), and Facebook’s SKAM - Austin.

In 2020 Cassie was named Austin’s 40-Under-40 Finalist in Arts and Entertainment. She is a graduate from The University of Texas with a degree in music composition and a secondary focus in film studies. Cassie is also a mental health advocate.