About

Vic Hernandez

Vic Hernandez is a young, up-and-coming professional keyboard collaborative artist. In addition to playing piano, he can play guitar, bass (upright and electric), and sing. He enjoys yoga, jiu jitsu, involvement in musical theatre productions, and film acting.

He holds a Bachelor of Music-Piano Performance degree from California State University, Northridge. His teachers include Mark Richman, Jason Stoll, and Vicente Avella. He has played for Dmitry Rachmanov, Melinda Lee Masur, and Jose Soto. He is currently a MFA-Keyboard Collaborative Arts student at the California Institute of the Arts, studying with Vicki Ray.

He has been part of the non-profit organization, the Sunday Night Singers as a Bass singer for five years; with this group, he has attended the International Choral Festival in Missoula, Montana and the California Choral Directors Association conference in San Jose, California. The group has plans for competing in the World Choir Games in Brussels, Belgium. He also has played double bass for the Antelope Valley Symphony Orchestra. He frequently plays for singers and instrumentalists for either audition or recital purposes.

As a soloist, he recently performed his senior recital, where he played works by Bach, Mozart, Brahms, and Debussy. His repertoire consists of music ranging from Baroque to modern music. He is presently a church pianist for the First Church of Christ, Scientist in Lancaster, California. In 2015 he attended the California State Summer School for the Arts, where he was awarded the highest earning grant, Herb Alpert Scholarship for Emerging Young Artists. The most recent award he received at this university is the Frank McGinnis Memorial Scholarship.

Vic has experience as a music teacher for all ages, beginning to advanced. He specializes in theory, guitar, bass, voice and especially piano. He is a member of the Music Teachers National Association. He has taught independently as well as through music schools. His students have had successes such as getting parts in local musicals, going on to prestigious high schools, and becoming employed artists for television commercials. His teaching philosophy is that he wishes for his students to have fun, learn the importance of art and how it affects their character development. “Music is the best form of art for learning responsibility, maintaining integrity, developing perseverance, and having fun all at the same time!”

His mission as a musician is to evoke pure emotion from his audiences, collaborators and himself. Oftentimes, he is caught in performance internally questioning, “are they (the audience) feeling something or are they just listening?” What Vic wants from this world is to answer this question with the former; that those listening to his music are indeed feeling pure emotion.