Wolfgang Lackner(I)
- Composer
- Sound Department
- Music Department
Austrian-born Wolfgang Lackner is an award-winning composer for Film, Television, and Multimedia. A graduate of the highly-acclaimed College of Music Program at the University of North Texas, Wolfgang began his studies as a jazz-arranging major, later switching his major to composition. Wolfgang has studied orchestration and composition under such names as Randall Bass, Conductor of the Dallas Metropolitan Wind Symphony and renowned jazz composers Frank Mantooth and Maria Schneider. He has also studied under internationally-known classical composer Dr. Martin Mailman and film and television composer Alan Oldfield. He has composed original scores for feature films, television, documentaries, local and national commercials, as well as music for the concert hall using a combination of his native European style with influences of modern America in his compositions. In 2013, Wolfgang received the Telly Award for "Best Use of Music in a Motion Picture" for the Sci-Fi Western "Shroud", as well as being a finalist at the International Moondance Film Festival for "Best Film Score".