Professional musician, composer, producer, recording artist, and owner of Darren Wilsey Music, a music production and publishing company. Original music featured on over 120 network television series, movies, and video games. (NBC,CBS, ABC, HBO, Showtime, Bravo, MTV, The WB, Disney, ESPN, TNT, E! Entertainment, Amazon and others. Wrote the book, The Musician's Guide to Licensing Music (Billboard Books/Random House) that is one of the top-selling music industry books of all time.
Teaching The Business of Music (MUS149).
Taught all coursework offered through the college related to audio recording technology and computer applications in music. (MUS212, MUS112). Additional course instruction included The History of Rock (MUS28), The Basics of Music (MUS01) and Music Appreciation (MUS20).
Taught all coursework offered through the college related to applications of the music industry; The Business of Music (MUS112) and Advanced Business of Music (MUS122).
Granted a teaching fellowship while earning my MFA at UC Irvine. Helped design coursework and instructed classes in the department's "16 Series" (Mus 16A, Mus 16B, Mus 16C, and Mus 16D). These courses addressed the fundamentals of music theory and ear training, in addition to the fundamental principles of Western Classical Music (17th-20th Century).
Taught both 10-Week Courses and 1-Day Seminars in Songwriting. Topics included genre, idioms, form, structure, lyrics, rhyme schemes, universal themes, verse, chorus, song formatting, melody, hooks, arrangement, overview of recording, mixing, filing for copyright, promotion and seeking representation.
Substitute Lecturer for a professor on sabbatical, MUS123 D70C
2024 American Red Cross Adult and Pediatric First Aid/CPR/AED certification
2018 Community Emergency Response Team FEMA certified for the city of Irvine, California
2012 Lauds and Laurels Award, UCI Alumni Association
-The first graduate from Claire Trevor School of the Arts to be honored with this distinction
2002 and 2003 ASCAP Songwriter Award, Popular Awards Panel
2001 and 2003 John Lennon Songwriting Contest, Grand Prize Winner (Electronic Category)