User:Bmonroney/Brian monroney

Brian Monroney is a Los Angeles-based guitarist currently touring as Musical Director for Sir Tom Jones. Brian first joined Sir Tom's band in early 1992, and was asked to assume the role of Musical Director in May 1996. Prior to touring with Jones, Brian toured with Barry Manilow (1991 "Showstoppers" tour) Venezuelan artist Ilan Chester (1990), and worked extensively as a studio musician in Miami's latin-pop scene in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Recording credits from this period include Gloria Estefan's "Into the Light", ......

Brian was raised in a musical family in Arvada, Colorado. During junior and senior high school, he studied guitar with Mickey McKee and Ozzie Carlson. Brian attended the University of Miami and received a Bachelor of Music in Studio Music and Jazz. At Miami he studied guitar with Randall Dollahan, and later taught under Dollahon for several years. Following relocation from Miami to Los Angeles in 1990, Brian taught briefly at California State University, Northridge before touring commitments made