News

February 18, 2012

The end of February and first weekend of March are going to be a little crazy. I've just been asked to play again with the Great Noise Ensemble for their performance, entitled "Guerilla New Music," at the Intersections Festival at The Atlas Performing Arts Center on Friday, March 2. I will be performing "Looney Tunes" by Robert Patterson. The following day, I will go into the recording studio with them to record that piece for their upcoming debut CD. I'm very excited and honored to have been asked to help with recording their CD, which is funded by a very successful Kickstarter campaign back in the Spring of 2011. Off to practice!!

January 28, 2012

I will be performing with the Loudon Symphony Orchestra for concerts in February and March.

January 9, 2012

We had auditions for our Middle and High School All-District 12 Bands this past weekend. From the schools that I teach, 6 percussionists were accepted and 4 were chosen as alternates. Congratulations!

Longfellow MS: Kunal Naik, Billy Rindone, Haran Chithranjan, Wes Romary (Alternate)
Madison HS: Melanie Johnson,  John Franklin (Alternate), Louis Blacker (Alternate)
McLean HS: Ann Liu, Blake Robertson, Shiloh Donnell (Alternate) 

January 1, 2012

David is performing with the Great Noise Ensemble at Catholic University of America's New Voices Music Festival on January 20th & 21st.  

December 22, 2011

Congratulations to Madison High School on being selected as a 2012 Sudler Flag of Honor recipient! This award is one of the highest honors that a high school band program can receive and is a great accomplishment. I have been fortunate to work at Madison HS for the past year and a half. Congratulations to Michael Hackbarth, band director, and to all of the current and past students for their great work!