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Darren Wilsey

Irvine,CA

Summary

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.

Overview

25
25
years of professional experience

Work History

Adjunct Professor

Santa Ana College/Digital Media Center
08.2013 - Current

Teaching The Business of Music (MUS149).

Adjunct Professor

Irvine Valley College
01.2008 - 01.2018

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).

Adjunct Professor

Fullerton College
08.2014 - 09.2017

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).

Graduate Student Teacher

University of California at Irvine
09.2003 - 06.2005

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).

Songwriting Instructor

Gotham Writers' Workshop
03.2002 - 08.2004

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.

Adjunct Lecturer

Kingsborough Community College
09.1999 - 12.1999

Substitute Lecturer for a professor on sabbatical, MUS123 D70C

Education

Certificate - Online Teaching Certification

Santa Ana College
Santa Ana, CA
2021

Certificate - Arts Management

University of California at Irvine
Irvine, CA
2017

MFA - Music Composition and Technology

University of California at Irvine
Irvine, CA
2005

BA - Chemistry

Hunter College
New York, NY
1998

Piano and Composition

Juilliard
New York, NY
1994

BM - Classical Guitar

Manhattan School of Music
New York, NY
1993

Awards and Community Service

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)


Timeline

Adjunct Professor

Fullerton College
08.2014 - 09.2017

Adjunct Professor

Santa Ana College/Digital Media Center
08.2013 - Current

Adjunct Professor

Irvine Valley College
01.2008 - 01.2018

Graduate Student Teacher

University of California at Irvine
09.2003 - 06.2005

Songwriting Instructor

Gotham Writers' Workshop
03.2002 - 08.2004

Adjunct Lecturer

Kingsborough Community College
09.1999 - 12.1999

Certificate - Online Teaching Certification

Santa Ana College

Certificate - Arts Management

University of California at Irvine

MFA - Music Composition and Technology

University of California at Irvine

BA - Chemistry

Hunter College

Piano and Composition

Juilliard

BM - Classical Guitar

Manhattan School of Music
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