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Artistic Staff Doug Wallace  Doug Wallace is a vibrant and energetic performer, composer, and educator with diverse experience in all areas of percussion performance and pedagogy. A graduate of the Eastman School of Music and The Juilliard School, Mr. Wallace has performed with a variety of acclaimed ensembles including the National Symphony Orchestra, the Washington National Opera, The Metropolitan Opera, the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, Theater Chamber Players, the Battery Four Percussion Group, Eclipse Chamber Orchestra, Post Classical Ensemble, Washington Symphonic Brass, and the Amadeus Orchestra. He has also participated in several honors ensembles and festival orchestras including Tanglewood Music Center, the National Repertory Orchestra, the National Orchestral Institute, Music Academy of the West, and the International Symphony Orchestra. With these groups and others, Mr. Wallace has worked under the baton of Lorin Maazel, Valery Gergiev, Pierre Boulez, James Levine, John Williams, Seiji Ozawa, Kurt Masur, Leonard Slatkin, and Placido Domingo. Mr. Wallace is in high demand as a music educator and clinician. In addition to his position as Director of Percussion for the American Youth Philharmonic Orchestras, he is the Professor of Percussion Studies and Assistant Director of Athletic Bands at Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Virginia. Mr. Wallace has been an active clinician, percussion director, and sectional instructor at several nationally recognized Fairfax County Public Schools, and his private students have been accepted to The Juilliard School, the Curtis Institute of Music, the Cleveland Institute of Music, the New England Conservatory, Boston University, the Peabody Conservatory, the Eastman School of Music, the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, the University of Miami, and DePaul University. His teaching techniques are highlighted in his method book, Percussion with Class, published by FJH Music, and his compositions and arrangements have been performed at The Juilliard School, the Eastman School of Music, New York University, George Mason University, the Music Academy of the West, the Aspen Music Festival, Temple University, the Noncert Chamber Series, the Bands of America National Percussion Festival, the Kennedy Center's Millenium Stage, and Nationals Park. Photo by Steve Barrett |
