Meet the Professor

Dr. Dan Wanner

Professor of Music
Los Angeles City College
Clausen Hall 243

Email: wannerda@lacitycollege.edu

Fall 2009 Courses

Music History and Literature I   [click here for syllabus]
Musicianship II                             [click here for syllabus]
Harmony II                                     [click here for syllabus]

Dr. Dan Wanner received his Master’s and Doctorate of Musical Arts degrees from Columbia University. Following the completion of his studies, he worked in New York City as a music editor and teacher. 

Dr. Wanner has written on music, film, and art for such publications as Stagebill and Current Musicology. His orchestral and chamber compositions have been performed throughout the northeast and in his hometown of Miami, Florida. 

He moved to Los Angeles in 1999 and since then has divided his time between composing the scores for numerous independent films, giving private piano lessons, and teaching at Los Angeles City College and Mount Saint Mary’s College. 

EDUCATION

• Doctor of Musical Arts in composition. Columbia University, Graduate School of the Arts.
• Master of Arts in composition. Columbia University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
• Bachelor of Arts. Columbia University, Columbia College.
• Certificate Program in Film Scoring, University of California Los Angeles Extension.
• Austro-American University, Vienna.

TEACHING

• Assistant Professor of Music, Los Angeles City College.
• Part-time instructor, Los Angeles City College.
• Instructor, Mount Saint Mary’s College, Los Angeles.
• Adjunct Assistant Professor of Music, Columbia University, New York.
• Lecturer, Music Humanities, Columbia University, New York.

PROFESSIONAL

• Board Member, ex-President, The League of Composers/ISCM.
• Contributing Editor, Current Musicology magazine.
• President and Founder, D-Sharp Music Scores.
• Program Editor, Stagebill magazine.

AWARDS

• Full-tuition Mellon fellowship to Columbia University GSAS.
• ASCAP Award to Young Composers.
• June in Buffalo. Studies with Milton Babbitt, Donald Erb, David Felder.
• Bowdoin Summer Music Festival. Studies with Bright Sheng.