Omar Akrouche
Born 1998 in Columbus, OH
Email: omar@akrouche.com
Website: omarakrouche.com
Education & Work
Owner/engineer of Somerset Classic, a home studio in Glendale, California (2020-present)
National Field Service Engineer at PMC Speakers (2024-2025)
House Engineer at Tiny Telephone in San Francisco/Oakland, an analog recording studio owned by John Vanderslice (2018-2021)
Assistant Engineer at Valentine Recording Studios working in large format analog (2022-2023)
AV technician at the First Congregational Church of Berkeley — live sound/video recording of Sunday services, concerts, and extra events (2017-2020)
Recording Engineer at San Francisco Conservatory of Music, a small team responsible for capturing audio and video for over 500 recitals/recording sessions a year (2016-2020)
Recipient of the Presser Foundation Undergraduate Scholar Award (2019)
San Francisco Conservatory of Music, BM Music Technology and Applied Composition (2016-2020)
High School graduate from the Orange County School of the Arts, Guitar Conservatory (2012-2016)
Press
FADER — Worthitpurchase deliver art-pop haymakers on Dizzy Age
FLOOD — Worthitpurchase Struggle to Make Sense of the Modern World on New Single “Sideways”
Paste — Premiere: Worthitpurchase Announce Self-Titled LP, Share Lead Single “Something New”
The Needle Drop — Worthitpurchase announce third self-titled album, share "Something New"
SF WEEKLY — Worthitpurchase Find Comfort in Hazy Resignation
Beats Per Minute — Solace in the unsolved with Worthitpurchase
Shoutout LA — Meet Omar Akrouche | Music Producer & Audio Engineer
Under the Radar — Premiere: Worthitpurchase Shares New Single, “Inbetween”
Atwood Magazine — Worthitpurchase deal with the pain of being nostalgic on debut “Dizzy Age”
The Bay Bridged — Worthitpurchase’s new single and video, “Dizzy Age”
Post Trash — Worthitpurchase - "Dizzy Age" Video | Post-Trash Premiere
KQED — In San Francisco, Video Games Are Classical Music's New Frontier