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During this time he also studied with film composer Albert Harris.
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Dan Radlauer
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Radlauer is the recipient of four BMI composer awards and has received special recognition at independent film festivals. He started playing music at the age of 8 with guitar and later learned piano, bass, accordion and various other stringed instruments. The advanced musical training he received was while attending school in the music department at Fullerton College in the late 1970s, playing and writing for their jazz and popular groups.
Radlauer"s big-band composition "Straight Tone and Strive Ahead" is the opening track of the Fullerton College Jazz Band 1983 Down Beat Award winning LP Time Tripping.
Radlauer also did notable writing for the big bands Maiden Voyage, the Big Band Jazz Machine, and publisher Commander of Order of Leopold Barnhouse. His first 15 years of professional composing were in the area of television and radio commercials.
Companies worked for include Coke, Mattel, Nissan, Greenlight Financial, Albertsons, and Pizza Hut. He has worked in the Rhythm & Blues and popular music fields recording with stars such as Teena Marie and co-produced the original television"s Greatest Hits Civil Defense.
By 2001 Radlauer started to be contracted much more for music scoring in the television and film industry doing feature length work.
He has composed music for numerous reality television, drama, and sitcom shows to include Foreign the Love of Ray J, Ruby, Flavor of Love, and The Surreal Life.
He was a contributing writer working with Randy Edelman on the 2008 action adventure film The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor. Other titles he has also scored as independent, feature length movies, and documentaries include The Reflecting Pool (2008), Bad Guys, Salvation (2007), Pip and Zastro (2006), She Wolves of the Wasteland (1987), Phoenix the Warrior (1988), and Thunder Geniuses. As an educator, Radlauer worked at the Idyllwild Arts Academy and at the Personal#1 Elementary School in Santa Monica as well as creating music ensembles at New West Middle School in Los Angeles and Pali High School.
He has been adjudicating jazz festivals for over 20 years, as well as providing instruction for music educators in Southern California.
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