Bio
Darren Wilsey is composer, producer, music supervisor and publisher. His television credits include "Sex and the City" (HB0), "Third Watch" (NBC), and "Ghost Whisper" (CBS). In 2005, he scored the thriller film "Look at Me" (IFM Worldwide Releasing, Inc), and the award winning comedy "The Life Coach.? He is a two-time grand prize winner of the John Lennon Songwriting Contest (2003 and 2001).
DARREN WILSEY is an award winning composer, songwriter, and music producer. He has written and produced music for numerous independent films and network television, including "Third Watch" (NBC), "Ghost Whisperer" (CBS), "Strong Medicine" (Lifetime), "Tilt" (ESPN), "Sex and the City" (HBO), "Punk'd" (MTV), "Queer as Folk" (Showtime), "Miss Match" (NBC), "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" (Bravo), "World's Strongest Man" (ESPN), "Freshman Diaries" (Showtime) and "Skin" (20th Century Fox Television).
Wilsey toured the US as a member of the rock group Vibrolush (V2 Records), in support of the band's debut single "Touch & Go," which entered Billboard's Magazine's Modern Rock Top 40 Chart in August 2000. The following year he began working with Emmy award winning director Thurston Smith, scoring the acclaimed documentary Silicon Alley Stories (awarded Best Documentary at the 2001 New York Independent Film Festival), and Whoa: The Influence of Art (awarded Best Short Film at the 2003 New York Independent Film Festival).
Music from his 2002 compilation series X-treme Drama (Volume 1 & 2) has been licensed extensively by film and television production companies around the world. In 2003, Wilsey was commissioned to score music for ice skating celebrity and Olympic gold medalist Brian Boitano, used on tour and the CBS television special "Ice Wars." The same year he received an award from ASCAP's Popular Awards Panel.
Wilsey is a two-time grand prize winner of the John Lennon Songwriting Contest (electronic category; 2003 & 2001), and has been featured as composer and music producer in publications by SONY Media, Sibelius (music notation software), and Yamaha. In 2005 he scored the TV pilot "Poor Little Rich Girl" (The WB), the thriller feature film Look@Me (IFM Worldwide Releasing), and the comedy feature film The Life Coach (Broad Appeal Productions).
Wilsey was a classical guitar major at The Manhattan School of Music, and with advanced academic standing he graduated with a B.M. in 1993. He also studied piano and music composition at The Juilliard School of Music. He also holds a B.A. in chemistry from Hunter College, and a M.F.A. from The University of California at Irvine, majoring in music composition and technology on full academic fellowship.