Vance Hurd

1010 Windmill Road

Dripping Springs, Texas
78620

512 - 740 - 8302

vancehurd@gmail.com

Education

Columbus State University, Columbus, GA

Music Performance, 2015

Professional Experience

4/2019 - Present
Dripping Springs High School, Dripping Springs, TX
Classical Guitar Instructor
- Teach High School students during their class time
- Teach technique, music theory, improvisation
composition, and arranging
5/2015 - Present
Freelance, Austin Texas
Classical and Electric Guitar Instructor
- Teach all ages and skill levels
- Help students discover their own creative voices
- Teach technique, music theory, improvisation
composition, and arranging

9/2010 - Present Freelance, Austin, TX

Musician
- Play classical guitar for local venues
- Identify booking agents and contact through email
- Email videos/recordings to booking agents
- Compose original music

8/2013 - 5/2015 Freelance, Columbus, GA

Guitar Instructor
- Taught guitar lessons
- Instructed on music theory and composition

(Vance Hurd, p2)

8/2011 - 5/2015 Columbus State University, Columbus, GA
Musician
- Played classical guitar for university events
- Played recitals and gigs in the community

6/2013 - 8/2013 Domino's, Dripping Springs, TX

Delivery Driver
- Delivered pizzas
- Washed dishes
- Answered phones
- Cleaned and closed up store

Relevant Courses
- Guitar Pedagogy
- Private Composition lessons
- Counterpoint
- Fretboard Harmony, a class teaching the text of the same name by Jeffery McFadden
- Jazz guitar lessons

Training/Workshops/Seminars

- Masterclasses / lessons with David Russell, Paul Galbraith, Adam Holzman, Andrew Zohn,
Joseph Palmer, Brian Pardo

- Attended the 2016 Austin Classical Guitar Society Teacher's Workshop

Activites
- Played classical guitar in school based ensembles: guitar duos, trios, quartet, flute and
guitar, vocalist and guitar

- Have experience playing in a rock band for several years

- Have studied Baroque music extensively, have studied improvisation in the style

- Play Jazz, can help students with their soloing, chord/scale matching, ect.