Vince Lauria
Composer / Guitarist
Professional Experience (Vince Lauria IMDB Information)
- Best Impact of Music in a Documentary; GOLD MEDAL for Excellence
MAN OF A THOUSAND FACES
- 2008 Nominated for "Best Use of Music in a Documentary Film" at this
year's Park City Film Music Festival
- 2007 Denny Laine session musician
- 2007 Park City Film Music Festival seminar speaker
- Composer for TV show "So You Wanna Be An Actor" with award-winning director Don Barnhart (Saved by the Bell, Benson) and starring Daniel Baldwin & Terasa Livingstone
- Winner of the prestigious “Clio Award.” Composed the winning melody for the “Made in the Shade” jeans commercial
- His music instructional system is used at “ Berklee School of Music” in Boston, the top music school in the world
- Over 2000 original compositions in his music library
- Staff instructor at “Grove School of Music” in Los Angeles California where he was also a technical advisor for “Guitar World Magazine,” the largest guitar magazine in the world
Vince has worked with the following artists
- Denny Laine - The Moody Blues, Wings
- Hall of Fame recording artist Dave Marks of "The Beach Boys"
- Jazz Great Richie Cole
- Chris Shalon ABC Television Special
- TV / Film Composer Dan Ferguson
- Emmy Award winner Jimmy Danelli (Winnie the Pooh)
- Mark Mc Clure (Apollo 13, Superman, Back to the Future)
- Academy Award winner Timothy Hutton
Musician 1980 - Present
Solo & Group Performances
- Author of fifteen instructional guitar and bass books. Session recordings and live performances
Appearances
- Entertainment Tonight, Walt Disney Productions, PBS Television, and numerous live concerts
Compositional/Educational Achievements
- Movie / TV composer for "Bonanza Music Library"
- Authored "Learn to Burn on Rock Guitar" guitar instruction series for Mel Bay Publications
- Authored "Riff Dictionary" used as sub text at "Berklee School of Music" in Boston
- Music Instructor Southern CA
- Private and group tutor
- Instructor at "Grove School of Music". Created and taught music curriculum, held Workshops in live performance, taught music theory,
harmony and application
Accomplishments
- President - Lauria School of Music, 1988 - 1995
- Technical Adviser - Guitar World Magazine
Education
- 2008 Master Class - award-winning film composer Douglas Romayne
- 2008 Master Class - two-time Emmy award-winning film composer, arranger, and orchestrator Hummie Mann
- 2007 Master Class - award-winning film composer Jeffrey Gold
- 2007 Master Class - two-time Emmy award-winning film composer, arranger, and orchestrator Hummie Mann
- 2006 Master Class - film composer, arranger, and orchestrator Conrad Pope
- Pro-Tools and Samplitude software training, 2005-2006
- Rapport Leadership Graduate - 2002
- Mac School 1995
- GIT, Berklee School of Music, and Grove School of Music 1984-1987
- Doctorate Music Courses (1984) - Malcolm Seagrave
- Private Classical Guitar Study, 1980-1984
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