Carl Verheyen

Carl William Verheyen is an American musician best known for being the guitarist for Supertramp, the leader of the Carl Verheyen Band, and as a session guitarist in Los Angeles.

He was ranked as one of the top 10 guitarists in the world by Guitar Magazine and won the LA Music Awards in the Best Guitarist category at the sixth annual awards ceremony.

He has recorded with such artists as The Bee Gees, Chad Wackerman, Dolly Parton, Victor Feldman, Richard Elliot, and Stanley Clarke, and has played guitar on soundtracks for such films as The Crow, The Usual Suspects, Ratatouille, and Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, and on the television programs Cheers, Seinfeld, and Scrubs.

He has been an adjunct instructor of studio jazz guitar at the USC Thornton School of Music and performs frequently at the Musicians Institute (MI) in Hollywood, California, the Guitar Institute of Technology and is the author of instructional books, including Improvising Without Scales and Studio City, a collection of articles written for Guitar for the Practicing Musician magazine.