David Vanacore is an American television music

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. Dubbed by television music industry insiders as 'The King of Reality', David Vanacore is the composer behind many acclaimed series as '' Survivor'', ''

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'' and hundreds more. Vanacore has won '' ASCAP's Most Performed Themes and Most Performed Underscorehttps://www.imdb.com/name/nm0888441/awards?ref_=nm_ql_2 awards every year since 2005. Vanacore began studying piano at the age of seven. For years he worked as a studio session pianist/keyboardist and toured with

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among other artists. He studied composition, orchestration and conducting at Cal State University and the

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School of Music. A chance meeting with television composer

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led to an offer as his studio keyboard player, which introduced him to the world of music supervision for television. Vanacore first major breakout as a TV composer occurred when he landed a job with

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for the first season of '' Survivor'' in 2000. At that time, Reality TV was new to audiences around the world; as a result, Vanacore was able to craft a style of music which today is commonly used for unscripted TV. As his success and workload increased he began to hire composers in order to keep up with the high demand of music. His venture as a one-man composer blossomed into a full-fledged composing house ( known as

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) producing music for unscripted television series. Today as President & CEO of

and co-owner with his wife Lisa, Vanacore continues to provide music for major network and cable shows in collaboration with his team of composers and producers at his music production facility in

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and recently established offices in

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