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Matthew Dela Pola has
excelled in virtually every area
of music production. He has done work for film studios such as Warner
Bros. Pictures, Walt Disney Studios, 20th Century Fox, Universal
Pictures, Paramount Pictures, IMAX Films, all four national broadcast
television networks, MTV, major cable networks, many major recording
labels as well as hundreds live shows.
Recently has Matthew music
directed Andrea Boceli's DVD recording of his concert in Lajatico,
Italy. Special guest were Sara Brightman, Laura Pausini, Kenny G,
and others. The DVD is currently on sale in Amercia and Italy and has
been filmed in the town where Andrea grew up.
Other upcoming events are
shows in Canada and in the United States and Matthew is working with a
new artist named Estefanía Gralla out of AudioGenia Studios in
Alicante, Spain.
Based out of Los Angeles
for the past ten years, Matthew
has worked as a conductor, arranger, composer, programmer, producer or
scoring consultant for artist such as
Barbra Streisand, Andrea Bocelli, Celine Dion, Elton John, N-Sync,
Alejandro Sanz, Phil
Collins, Josh
Groban,
Sarah
McLachlan, Michael Buble, Jessica Simpson, Billy Joel, Kenny G., Stevie
Wonder,
La Ley, Faith Hill, Tim McGraw, Diana Ross, John Mayer, Tears for
Fears,
etc..
He has also worked with
record producers David Foster, Walter Afanasieff, Humberto Gatica and
film composer William Ross just to name a few. See full bio for
more complete list.
He also has long term
working relationships with many of
the areas top talents such as; musicians Greg Phillinganes, John "JR"
Robinson, Nathan East, Dean Parks, Michael Thompson, Dave Boruff, Neil
Stubenhaus, George Doering, Raphael Padilla, Randy Waldman, etc..
Engineers such as Armin Steiner, Dave Reitzas, Al Schmitt and Robert
Fernandez and he has worked in many of the major studios in Los
Angeles, New York, London and Miami.
Matthew has worked with the Hollywood Film Orchestra
countless times on film and cd projects as a co-producer and/or scoring
consultant. He has also worked with the London Symphony Orchestra and
many top studio orchestras in many different cities and scoring studios
throughout North America.
Matthew has received certificate awards for the Latin
Grammy's 2002 Album of the Year and Latin Grammy's 2002 Song of the
Year for Alejandro Sanz's MTV Unplugged as string arranger and
conductor of the show. Another Latin Grammy nominated project that
Matthew arranged and conducted was La Ley Unplugged.
Matthew owns and operates a complete working studio with
Protools HD, Logic ( was a Logic endorsed artist ), and works with most
of the latest programs and devices that most pro composers use. He
delivers final products for feature films, CD recordings and live shows
from his studio named, The Lab Studios.
Matthew earned a Master Degree in Piano Performance and
two Bachelor Degrees, one in Music Theory and the other in Music
Composition from Combs College of Music in Philadelphia, PA. In
addition he has had conservatory training at The Neupauer Conservatory
of Music, Philadelphia, PA, with Dr. Jacob Neupauer (music theory), and
training from Julliard graduates, Dr. William Schimmell (composition)
and Dr. Anthony Weigand (piano) all by the age of 23. His education
also includes film scoring classes I & II at UCLA and an audio
engineering diploma from Music Lab in Hollywood, CA, as well as private
conducting lessons with various teachers in Philadelphia and Hollywood.
Matthew has been writing, producing and performing music
most of his life having sold his first original piece of music as a
teen.
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