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Vreny Van Elslande

Composition and Theory
Guitar - Electric
Guitar - Acoustic

Los Angeles, CA

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Quick Resume: EDUCATION • 1990-1998 Municipal Academy of Music & Word Ypers, Ypers, Belgium. • Diploma, Performance Classical guitar, Classical Composition • Recipient of Special Award Jan Decadt for outstanding achievement as a classical performer. • Graduated Summa Cum Laude • 1998-2002 Berklee College of Music, Boston, MA. • B.M., Performance, • B.M., Music Production and Engineering • Member of the Dean’s Club and The President’s Club in Berklee. • Recipient of Belgian Governmental Scholarship • Recipient of Berklee College of Music “B.E.S.T Award”. • Graduated Summa Cum Laude for both degrees. • 2003 Musician’s Institute Hollywood, CA • 10-week Encore Program • Awarded a full scholarship for this special non-certificate program. EXPERIENCE • 1992–1998 Private guitar-instructor, Ypers, Belgium. Free-lance guitar-instruction and music-teacher. Gave private-instruction in my teaching-studio, specialized in rock-styles, jazz and classical. Some of my former students now are top-students in the best Conservatories in Belgium and Holland (references available upon request). • 2000–2001 Wellspring Studio, Actun, MA. Free-lance Producer/ Arranger. Produced Boston-based band “Quest” and demos for different artists. • 2001 OceanMysth Studios, Ypers, Belgium Artist / Producer Release of my self-produced EP “Millennium”. 2002 Performed with female artist “Kimberlee”, Los Angeles, CA Back-up musician in Kimberlee’s band. Performed on numerous important shows, including Beverly Hills HardRock Café and live on CBS television (show “Eye Of The Desert”) in Palm Springs. • Dec., 2002 Renowned Belgian metal band “Edgecrusher", Gent, Belgium Free-lance mix engineer/session guitarist/ production advisor. Was hired as a mix-engineer and session guitarist for European metalband Edgecrusher’s upcoming 2nd album “Impressions of Mankind”, recorded in renowned Belgian “Studio 13”. • 2003 Bryan Farrish Radio Promotion, Sherman Oaks, CA, Hands-on experience in radio-promotion: handling phone-calls with radio-stations, record-labels and artists, database entry, handling of all mailings, client prospecting, promoting artists. • 2003 Private Guitar Instructor. Los Angeles, CA Offering full-time private guitar instruction in any style or performance technique, in my teaching studio. • 2003 Music Teacher’s Network Los Angeles, CA Became special instructor with this New York based company, which is specialized in offering top-quality private music/instrument instruction to exceptionally gifted music-students, at their houses (references available upon request). • 2003 Happy All Day, Inc. Los Angeles, CA Provided my services as a live-sound engineer in rehearsals and all live performances of musical productions “The Sound of Music”, “Grease” and “The Music Man”, musical projects of “Creative Kids Youth Theater”. • 2003 Free-lance Session Guitarist Los Angeles, CA Provided my services as a session guitarist on numerous sessions, including the recording of the EP “TOBY” of artist Toby Madigan, which got airplay on numerous college radio stations nation wide. • Featured performing with the Ezina Moore Band, niece of Bobby Womack. Ezina Moore’s music is played a lot on MTV world wide. • 2004 Sound Engineer/ Sound Director, Los Angeles, CA Creative Kid’s Youth Theater: worked as the sound director/engineer for all the 2004 shows/performances of this youth theater. • 2005 Performer and session guitarist Played guitar on 1 song released on an obscure album for upcoming talent in SoCal. Leah Hanna King’s song “Man I Never Knew” was released on that album. I play acoustic guitar on that track. • Played guitar on the new Matt Konfirst release “War of Righteousness”, released Oct. 2006. • Played numerous sold-out shows in Belgium and Holland with a highly acclaimed Jimi Hendrix Tribute project. • My song “Shred Demo” received radio airplay in Belgium and Holland on “On The Rocks”, and received major push from famed rock DJ John Bobo Bollenberg. • 2006 Performer and session guitarist, Los Angeles, CA Played all major clubs in Hollywood, Los Angeles and SoCal with Cory Phillips Superlove, including: the Whisky A GoGo, BB Kings, The Mint, The Good Hurt, Highland Grounds, Room 5, Genghiz Cohen, The Derby, 14Below, The Loop, The Cat Club, Rainbow Room, the Roxy, etc… • Played guitar on Cory Phillips’ new album to be released Spring 2007. Cory Phillips is a rising star in SoCal, receiving lots of press for his unique blend of soul with rock, and his superb 9-piece band. • Played guitar on 2 tracks on the new Amel Larrieux release “Morning”, available in all music stores nationwide and internationally, and currently receiving heavy rotation on radio stations and on MTV internationally. • Produced, engineered and played guitar on the Derek Taylor Kent album “Why is the Lights On?”. Album will be released 2007, and is entirely being recorded in my home-studio. • Played guitar in the History Channel documentary “Declassified”: in the episode on bounty hunting that was aired on TV Summer 2006 SKILLS • Languages: Flemish, Dutch, French, English, some German. • Fluid in ALL musical performance styles (rock, blues, metal, fusion, progressive, funk, jazz, and classical) and guitar-techniques. • Proficient in: Protools, Digital Performer, Peak , Finale. • Well-developed leadership and communication skills. • Strong music transcription skills. INTERESTS (besides everything music) • Chess, computers, soccer, reading, psychology, the mind, travelling, hiking.

References: references at: www.vreny.com

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