Dan Viafore

Assistant Professor, Recording Arts Loyola Marymount University

Los Angeles CA

School of Film and Television

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Biography

Dan Viafore is a two-time Grammy nominee and multi-platinum awarded audio engineer with 20 years of experience recording and mixing in studio and live environments. Record credits include hits off Olivia Rodrigo's GUTS and SOUR, and the Jonas Brothers’ theme for Disneyland’s 70th Anniversary. Dan also handled 17 seasons of vocal engineering and editing on NBC’s The Voice. You’ve heard his mixing and engineering on projects from Demi Lovato, Bastille, Giorgio Moroder, and Sabrina Carpenter. Corporate clients include: Universal Music Group, Dreamworks, Disney, Netflix, 20th Century Fox, Fox Sports, and Nat Geo. Dan taught for ten years at Emerson College's flagship LA program before coming to LMU.

Education

Boston College

Education/History

2007

Emerson College

Media Arts/Audio

2009

Social

Areas of Expertise

Music Production

Recording Music

Audio Engineering

Recording Arts

Post Production Sound

Industry Expertise

Music

Motion Pictures and Film

Recording

Education/Learning

Audio Visual

Accomplishments

Two-time Grammy Nominee

Dan was nominated as an engineer for two Grammys at the 66th Grammy Awards in 2023 for his work on Olivia Rodrigo's GUTS album.
- Record of the Year for 'vampire'
- Album of the Year for 'GUTS'

Affiliations

Grammys Voting Member (NARAS)

Languages

English

Courses

RECA 393: Movie Music

Students perform extensive visual and audio analysis of how music contributes to narrative cinematic arts. Students will be connecting visual and audio structural elements of film as they are related to important psychological principles such as humans having bias toward predictability, especially when it comes to musical expectations. Combined interdisciplinary concepts of psychology, music, and film are used to achieve the learning outcomes.

RECA 461: Multi-Track Studio Recording

Advanced theory and practice of live studio recording, music production and sound engineering techniques.

RECA 361: Live and Studio Recording

The theory and practice of live studio recording, music production and sound engineering techniques.