About
David Wolf is an educator and free-lance performer based in Northern Virginia who specializes in contemporary concert and marching percussion. Currently, he keeps an active teaching schedule as the Percussion Director for McLean High School and Longfellow Middle School in McLean, VA and Madison High School and Thoreau Middle School in Vienna, VA. He previously held a one-semester appointment as the Interim Director of Percussion Studies at the University of Texas at Arlington. Dr. Wolf has taught privately and in conjunction with multiple public school and college programs in Massachusetts, Texas, Oklahoma, and Ohio. He has taught on the marching percussion staffs of the University of Massachusetts Minuteman Marching Band, the University of Oklahoma Pride of Oklahoma Marching Band, the Spartans Drum and Bugle Corps, and several high school marching band and indoor drumline programs.
As a multi-dimensional performer, Dr. Wolf has enjoyed a variety of performance settings. Currently, he is a member of the Capital Wind Symphony, under the direction of George Etheridge, and participates in other professional performances in the Metropolitan Washington, D.C. area. Most recently he performed as a soloist with the McLean High School Symphonic Band at the 2011 Virginia Music Educator Association Conference and with the Great Noise Ensemble, a new music ensemble based in Washington, D.C. In 2005, he placed second at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention Solo Competition (multi-percussion and tape) after being selected as a one of four finalists from an international pool of applications. At that same convention, he performed a showcase concert as a member of The Ohio State University Percussion Ensemble. In 2006, he performed at the Focus Day at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention in Austin, TX. He has performed in concerts and festivals in Virginia, Washington D.C., Ohio, Massachusetts, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, New York, and Connecticut. Dr. Wolf has had the pleasure of performing with international percussion artists, such as Nebojsa Zivkovic, Linda Maxey, Susan Powell, Michael Burritt, Russell Hartenberger, John Beck, and Eduardo Leandro.
Dr. Wolf graduated from The Ohio State University with the Doctor of Musical Arts degree as a University Fellow and Graduate Teaching Associate, where he studied with Dr. Susan Powell and Joe Krygier. He earned his Master of Music Degree in Percussion Performance from the University of Oklahoma, where he studied with Dr. Lance Drege, and his Bachelor of Music Degree in Percussion Performance and Music Education from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he studied with Eduardo Leandro and Dr. Peter Tanner.
Dr. Wolf is an educational endorser for Remo Drumheads & Percussion and Vic Firth Sticks & Mallets. He holds memberships in the Percussive Arts Society, College Music Society, and MENC.
Downloadable CV available here.