Korff School alum’s music heard on multi-platinum recording artist albums

Orrin Wilson graduated from the Glenn Korff School of Music in 2011 with a DMA in trumpet performance. Today, he’s part of the music production duo called “velocitymadeit,” whose music can be heard on multi-platinum recording artist albums from Chris Brown, Young M.A., Lil Wayne, and more.

“It’s quite shocking to hear music that you sit alone in your room in front of a computer for hours trying to get the right ideas, or you’re in a studio with an artist, trying to come up with something that never existed before. And then to hear it on the radio or to hear it being streamed so many times or see people dancing to it on TikTok,” Wilson said.

Korff School alum’s music heard on multi-platinum

recording Wilson formed velocitymadeit with Anthony Barfield, his roommate at the Manhattan School of artist albums Music, where he attended after UNL. In 2015 they caught the attention of Amadeus (Antwan Thompson), a multi-platinum music producer and music director for Trey Songz. In 2016, Amadeus told them to look at something posted on singer and rapper Chris Brown’s social media pages. “When I looked on Instagram, here was Chris Brown singing to one of the songs that we produced for him,” Wilson said. “And I was like, okay, now it is about to change.” Brown went on to record seven of their songs, three of which were on his album “Cuffing Season: 12 Days of Christmas,” which went four times platinum, two times in the U.S. (RIAA), platinum in Canada and New Zealand,

Orrin Wilson (left) and Anthony Barfield (right) with artist Young M.A. in 2019.