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American jazz saxophonist Mack Goldsbury. Goldsbury also used Flauding's jazz composition, "Tacos," scored for little big band, in a December 2015 jazz workshop in Berlin, Germany. More than a hundred of Flauding's composition and arrangements for band and jazz ensemble are featured in the form of sheet music and performance scores on the
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296:. Flauding's original recordings have charted Commercial and Digital Radio and have been featured in numerous television and film productions. Concert works, such as his "Viola Sonata (Passacaglia & Fugue)," were premiered in Europe. In summer 2016 he began work on a new suite for guitar and orchestra in three movements.
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Flauding began his recording and performance career while still in high school in
Southern California. His first professional gigs were as lead guitarist and arranger for the band, Group Effort, formed by Ric and an older brother. With a full-time manager, the band performed in venues in Los Angeles
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Flauding's "Guitar Etude" (an excerpt from the composition "Moonlit") was selected by the Texas Jazz
Educators Association for the Texas All-State Competition in 2015. Two of his compositions and arrangements were performed in spring 2016 by symphony orchestras in Juarez, Mexico, and Laredo, Texas,
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Flauding has produced compositions and arrangements for groups including the London Symphony and the London Boychoir,; the Fort Worth Symphony,; the Plano Symphony Orchestra: (December 18, 2016), in which his arrangement of the song "Sleigh Ride" was the featured Finale of the "Home for the
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Angeles, and produced several new arrangements for what he describes as "little big band." In 2013
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Rockford, Illinois, (the 33rd Annual Jazz Festival) leading jazz workshops, conducting, and performing on guitar for the 2016 Spring Concert. In February 2016 Flauding took part as performer, conductor, and panelist at the annual Lone Star Guitar Festival in Weatherford, Texas. He served as
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on bass, and Sam Riney on saxophone. The album was produced by the renowned jazz guitarist and record producer Paul Brown and became a pre-nomination Grammy candidate. During the same period
Flauding completed the UCLA Film Scoring Program where he won awards for motion picture and commercial
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Hatchett, classical guitar with Ted McKown, and flamenco performance with Ricardo de Escobal. Over the next ten years Flauding developed his knowledge of composition and music theory and immersed himself in the academic side of the art with
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Holidays" concerts; and the Juarez, Mexico, Symphony
Orchestras, and arrangements commissioned by jazz, pop, and New Age instrumentalists. "All Creatures" arranged for Mack Goldsbury His song, "For
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